How far I have to go to find you
in whom I have already arrived
Thomas Merton
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Tag: Awareness
Seeing the difference
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
Sharon Salzburg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
Sunday Quote: How distance is shortened
Only from the heart
can you touch the sky
Rumi
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When we get silly thoughts
With the mind, you can apply inwardly the same attention. When your eyes are closed, you can listen to the inner voices that “speak” in the mind. They say “I am this…”I should not be like that”. You can use those voices for bringing you to the space between thoughts. Rather than making a big problem about the obsession and fears that go on in your mind, you can open your attention and see those obsessions and fears as mental conditions that come and go in space. This way, even an negative thought can take you to emptiness.
Ajahn Sumedho, The Mind and the Way
Finally seeing
Life is no passing memory of what has been
nor the remaining pages in a great book
waiting to be read.
It is the opening of eyes long closed.
Davids Whyte, The Opening of Eyes
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Underneath it all
When we use the term “basic goodness”,
we are talking about our inherent completeness.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
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