Tag: Awareness

The way of all things

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see

 Roethke, In a Dark Time

A day like Good Friday bears witness to a truth that runs through all the different wisdom traditions, namely, that the times when we are challenged and hurt are often the moments when we grow the most. Thus  places of darkness are difficult and fruitful at the same time. This truth needs to be remembered in a culture that focuses on perpetual youth, continual progress and ongoing self-improvement: :

Life may be brimming over with experiences,

but somewhere, deep inside,

all of us carry a vast and fruitful loneliness wherever we go.

Etty Hillesum

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Sunday quote: learning

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I keep looking for one more teacher,
only to find that fish learn from water
and birds learn from sky.

Mark Nepo, Behind the Thunder

Always there

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Out here it’s impossible to be lonely.
The land walking beside you is your oldest friend,
pleasantly silent, like already you’ve told the best stories
and each of you knows how much the other made up.

Naomi Shihab Nye, At the Seven Mile Ranch, Comstock, Texas

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig 

  Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

Moments

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There is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day

Sunday Quote: In the heart

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If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:

Listen to the secret sound,

the real sound,

which is within you

Kabir

 

Putting labels

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A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. ‘Right,’ ‘wrong,’ ‘success,’ ‘failure, ‘ lucky’, ‘unlucky’ may be as limiting a way of seeing things as ‘diabetic’, ‘epileptic’, ‘manic-depressive’ ….. Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.. Belief traps or frees us. Labels may become self-fulfilling prophecies. 

Rachel Naomi Remen

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