Tag: Awareness

Competely in the moment

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If you can pour a cup of tea right,

you can do anything

Gurdjieff

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Creating a gap

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It isn’t the things that happen to us that cause us to suffer;

it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

Pema Chödrön

photo of a robin sheltering from the wind and the rain by phil sangwell

Familiar stories

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We can have a lot of stories about how our lives are heading, or what our strengths and weaknesses are, or why things are not going as the should go…

One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually true, and whether the opinions we go over every day have any foundation or are things we repeat to ourselves simply so that we will continue to play the game.  It can be quite disorientating to find that a story we have relied on is not only not true – it never was true…In fact, the continued retelling of it simply imprisons us. We are used to the prison,  however, we have indeed fitted cushions and armchairs and made it comfortable and have locked the door from the inside.

David Whyte, Letter from the House, Winter 2012

What gives us energy

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.

We are never tired,

so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

photo from the top of Skellig Michael by mike shields

Just the way it is

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Something we need to hold in mind at all times...

If you are invested in security and certainty

you are on the wrong planet

Pema Chodron

Where your life is

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What I want to say is
that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.

So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,

and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life.

Mary Oliver, from Mornings at Blackwater

photo of the River Barrow at Bagenalstown, Co Carlow,  May 18th 2015.