Tag: Awareness

Sunday Quote: On not holding things too tightly

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Things are not as they are seen,

nor are they otherwise. 

Lankavatara Sutra

What we see, what we know

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The relation beP1000373tween what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Beauty and life

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white-cherry-flowersOur sense of beauty

and our understanding of the nature of the good life

are intertwined.

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

How we carry

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....in the ordinary moments of this life.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us

is essential to being at home in ourselves,

and present to the world with all of its failings.

Krista Tippett

Keeping here

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; 

And give us not to think so far away 

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here 

All simply in the springing of the year.

Robert Frost

As Spring arrives

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The best way to ‘get somewhere,’ to make progress in meditation — and that’s a dangerous way to think about it — is to just begin to pay attention, moment to moment, with less judgment.

Jon Kabat Zinn