There seems to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish . . .
and those who understand
that all such attempts are just gesticulation and playacting, that there is only one thing that can be done,
which is to dis-identify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure Being.
Wei Wu Wei, [Terence James Stannus Gray] 1895 -1986, writer on Taoism
The moment you have the idea of becoming something, there is striving, there is effort, there is conflict.
But if you can simply observe what is without trying to change it, then there is a totally different kind of energy
– not the energy of resistance, but the energy of understanding.
Jiddu Krisnamurti, Freedom from the Known
The Buddha said that all conditions =
whether they are internal conditions, bodily conditions or external conditions –
are not self, their nature is to change.
Contemplate this truth until you see it clearly
Ajahn Chah, Our Real Home
Just as a rock is not shaken by a storm,
a wise person is not affected by praise or blame
The Dhammapada, 81
We are obsessed with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute. But as the poet William Stafford says, ‘The more you hurry, the more you feel like a stranger to your own life.’
The human soul does not want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed – to be seen, heard, and companioned exactly as it is.
Parker Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact
that sometimes things must unfold in their own time,
Jon Kabat Zinn
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