All is grace

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When you are no longer preoccupied with asking for more and more stuff, then you just take what is given and give what is taken. Life is simple again. A farmer explained it to us this way: “You cannot make the clouds rain more, you cannot make the sun shine less. They are just nature’s gifts — take it or leave it.”

When the things around you are seen as gifts, they are no longer a means to an end; they are the means and the end.

Nipum Mehta Paths are made for Walking

photo Purple Sherbet Photography

Everyday epiphanies

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world

John Milton

Seeing the magic today

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The world is full of magic things

patiently waiting for our senses to get sharper

wb Yeats

 

True to oneself

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I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,

or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular

but because it never forgot what it could do

Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous

photo tony hisgett

Illusions

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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion.

This is it.

Jon Kabat Zinn

photo thhe at english wikipedia

Grounded

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When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick:

every time a stick is thrown, you run after it.

Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.

One only throws a stick at a lion once

Milarepa, Tibetan Buddhism, 1052 – 1135

photo calips