Tag: Awareness

Relating to all

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One of the most toxic new-age ideas is that we should “keep a positive attitude.” What a crazy, crazy idea that is. It is much healthier, much more healing, to allow yourself to feel whatever is coming up in you, and allow yourself to work with that anxiety, depression, grief. Because, underneath that, if you allow those feelings to come up and express themselves, then you can find the truly positive way of living in relationship to those feelings. That’s such an important thing…..It’s not  about some “spiritual experience” of being high all the time. Not at all. It is about living with the ongoing stresses and strains and difficulties – and joys –  of life, but doing so in a way that we feel whole. Living in relationship with the struggles of life is what makes us human.

Michael Lerner, The Difference between Healing and Curing

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Hold everything lightly

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From the beginning
the flying birds have left
no footprints on the blue sky
Musō Soseki, Zen Buddhist Monk, calligraphy artist, poem writer, and garden designer,  1275 – 1351
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Labelling

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This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived,

it is named, interpreted, compared with something else,

liked, disliked, or called good or bad by ….the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

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In the details

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The secret of happiness

lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life,

and in elevating them to art.

William Morris, English Designer, 1834 – 1896

Sunday Quote: Perspective

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Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture.

You never realize that all you needed was to change perspective.

Miguel Syjuco, Illustrado, 2008 Man Asian Literary Prizewinner

Our own path

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We are not here to fit in, be well-balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.

James Hollis, What Matters Most

photo of the top of Skellig Michael by mike shields.