I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day [extract]
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Picasso
The sounds of streams
are Buddha’s speech.
The coloured mountains
are Buddha’s pure body.
Night brings eighty-four thousand poems of Buddha.
Listen, someday you may awaken.
Su Shi, 1037 – 1101, Chinese calligrapher, essayist and poet.
Spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything — not about winning or losing — but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
Pema Chodron
Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving.
Life is the train, not the station.
Paulo Coelho
While sitting on the floor of a room in Japan and looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragon flies hovering in space, I sensed that this small world, almost underfoot, shall I say, had a validity all its own, but must be realized and appreciated from its own level in space.
I suddenly felt I had too long been exclusively above my boots.
Mark George Tobey, 1890 – 1976, American painted, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.
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