Everyone’s mind likes saying “but.”
Thinking you are doing it wrong, that the conditions of your life stop you from making friends with yourself – these thoughts might get in the way of noticing what it is like to be you. You might disapprove of who you are, but disapproving is just another way of not being here.
In this case, making friends with yourself could mean lowering your standards….
John Tarrant, What’s it Like to be You?
photo Ian Kirk
Wherever you are, just try being the host.
You will always be at home.
Linji Yixuan, Chan Buddhist, died 866
There is an inner wakefulness…
that will eventually
startle us back
to the truth of
who we are.
Rumi
Accept – then act.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Always work with it, not against it
Eckhart Tolle
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It is no easy matter to stop short at just seeing.
Mahasi Sayadaw.
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