Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
David Levithan, 1972 – American author and editor.
Remember
Tag: Awareness
The nature of change
Breathing in, I see the beautiful leaves,
breathing out, I know they are impermanent.
Smiling at the nature of change
I enjoy their presence even more.
Thich Nhat Hanh.
Cosmic pain
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.
Pir Vilayat Khan, 1916 – 2004, Sufi Meditation teacher and writer
Full moon
Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side. Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour.
Do it now. You’re covered with thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet.
Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
The speechless full moon comes out now.
Rumi, Quietness
Simple mindfulness advice
A walk is just as good…
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having,
just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road,
without a thought on anything but on the ride you are taking.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scientific American, 1896
[or as I saw it written on a wall in Italy…”pedala senza pensare a nient’altro che alla strada che percorri”]
Precious enough
Who needs to reach beyond all this wonder surrounding us….
Who needs to feel they will survive their death, either as a transcendent conscious soul residing in heaven or re-entering nature again and again?
What we are given is precious enough – a moment of awareness.
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
