Everyone gets sick sometimes,
feels bad sometimes.
This is not a hindrance to Dhamma practice.
The hindrance is to take it personally.
Ajahn Sucitto
Our narrative
Tag: Awareness
Every step today
If you look for the truth outside yourself
It gets further and further away
Today, walking alone, I meet him everywhere I step
He is the same as me, yet I am not him
Only if you understand it in this way
will you merge with the way things are.
Dongshan, 9th Century China, Chan Buddhist monk (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Look
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes. It’s more than bones. It’s more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It’s more than the beating of the single heart. It’s praising. It’s giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life — just imagine that!
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another
Mary Oliver, To Begin With, the Sweet Grass
Pizza
The sky isn’t more beautiful if you have perfect skin. Music doesn’t sound more interesting if you have a six-pack. Dogs aren’t better company if you are famous. Pizza tastes good regardless of your job title.
The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.
Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
Air
All you can do for another person
is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
Change is law
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death.
But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
“Socrates” in Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
(A huge thanks to Ted Szi for letting me know the correct origin of this quote)
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