When the eyes and the ears are open,
even the leaves on the trees
teach like pages from the scriptures.
Kabir
photo borealis55
Photo borealis55
Tag: Awareness
All there is
Practice is just hearing, just seeing, just feeling. This is what Christians call the face of God: simply taking in this world as it manifests. We feel our body; we hear the cars and birds. That’s all there is.
Charlotte Joko Beck.
photo nottsexminer
Sunday Quote: Surprise
Expect nothing.
Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
What’s important
We hurry through the so-called boring things
in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting.
Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is “essential“
and that nothing at all is “important.”
Helen Luke, Jungian Therapist
photo kyknoord
A wise not-understanding
Why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own world, from the vastness of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation? Why should you want to give up a child’s wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The intersection of two worlds
It is so easy to miss the tiny symbols. Finding them is quite different from the business of trying to hatch up big symbolic experiences. It is recognition, not pursuit, of meaning — recognition of the sacramental, of the intersection of the two worlds, breaking through unsought because one is attending.
Helen Luke, Jungian Therapist, Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On
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