Tag: Awareness

Everything, everywhere

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The gate of heaven is everywhere.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

The whispered secret

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An angel … embraced me
and whispered through my whole body:
“Don’t be ashamed of being human, be proud!
Inside you vault opens behind vault endlessly.
You will never be complete, that’s how it’s meant to be.”

Tomas Tranströmer, Romanesque Arches

The blessings and the vastness

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I know from personal experience how strong the habitual mind is. The discursive mind, the busy, worried, caught-up, spaced-out mind, is powerful. That’s all the more reason to d the most important thing – to realize what a strong opportunity every day is, and how easy it is to waste it. If you don’t allow your mind to open and to connect with where you are. with the immediacy of your experience, you could easily become completely submerged….you get so completely caught up in the content of your life, the minutiae that make up a day, so self-absorbed in the big project you have to do, that the blessings, the magic, the stillness and the vastness escape you. 

Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart

Exquisitely singular

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Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute.

Don’t reject them, let them come through when they’re ready, don’t think you can plan it all out.

This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again.

It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

Naomi Shihab Nye, I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven

Supports all around

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Just when the worst bears down

You find a pretty bubble in your soup at noon

And outside a bird says “hi”

Slowly the sun creeps along the floor;

It is coming your way. It touches your shoe.

William Stafford, It’s all Right

Right here

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When you encounter things, you should know that right there the true teaching reveals itself.

You should know that place

Suzuki Roshi