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
Photo of Lake Leman from Nyon by Alexandra Lee
Tag: Awareness
Underneath it all
When we use the term “basic goodness”,
we are talking about our inherent completeness.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Sunday quote: Not losing hope
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi
Red leaves
We cling to our own point of view, as if everything depended on it.
Yet our views have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Chuang Tzu, Chinese Philosopher, 4th century BC
photo foxtod
Sunday Quote: Learning to listen
Nothing has ever been said about God
that hasn’t been said better by the wind in the pine trees
Thomas Merton
Thin spaces
As I mentioned yesterday, the old Celtic feast of Samhain, celebrated tomorrow, was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the spiritual world was felt to be quite thin and it was easier to get glimpses of deeper meaning.
Anybody who goes through life with open mind and open heart will encounter moments of revelation, moments that are saturated with meaning, but whose meaning cannot be put into words.
Roger Scruton, English philosopher
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity
George Eliot, Middlemarch
photo ray eye
