Tag: Awareness

Sunday Quote: Aware

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it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world

Mary Oliver

No solid ground

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The Himalayan legend says
there are beautiful white birds
that live completely in flight.
They are born in the air,

must learn to fly before falling
and die also in their flying.
Maybe you have been born
into such a life

with the bottom dropping out.
Maybe gravity is claiming you
and you feel
ghost-scripted.

For the one who lives inside the fall,
the sky beneath the sky of all.

Jennifer K Sweeney, In Flight

Moments to reflect

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Difficult things provoke all your  irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface.  And that becomes the moment of truth.  You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

Pema Chodron

Sunday Quote: Not to plan

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Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned

didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Ann Patchett, 1963 – American author.

The end of the world

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To be human we need to experience the end of the world.

We need to lose the world, to lose a world,

to discover that there is more than one world and that the world isn’t what we think it is.

Hélène Cixous,  June 1937 -,  French feminist writer, poet, playwright, and philosopher.

What we have learnt

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It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.
Or sunshine, love, salvation.

It could, you know. That’s why we wake
and look out – no guarantees
in this life.

But some bonuses, like morning,
like right now, like noon,
like evening.

William Stafford, Yes