There is a permanent amnesia planted in us,
which just as we keep forgetting our dreams,
we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize winning author.
photo johann jaritz
Tag: Awareness
If not now, when
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living
Eckhart Tolle
photo european people’s party
The greatest gift
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.
How can you love if you are not there?
Thich Nhat Hanh
photo nha le hoan
Competely in the moment
If you can pour a cup of tea right,
you can do anything
Gurdjieff
photo saitowitz
Creating a gap
It isn’t the things that happen to us that cause us to suffer;
it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
photo of a robin sheltering from the wind and the rain by phil sangwell
Familiar stories
We can have a lot of stories about how our lives are heading, or what our strengths and weaknesses are, or why things are not going as the should go…
One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually true, and whether the opinions we go over every day have any foundation or are things we repeat to ourselves simply so that we will continue to play the game. It can be quite disorientating to find that a story we have relied on is not only not true – it never was true…In fact, the continued retelling of it simply imprisons us. We are used to the prison, however, we have indeed fitted cushions and armchairs and made it comfortable and have locked the door from the inside.
David Whyte, Letter from the House, Winter 2012
