Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past.
To come into the present is to stop the war.
Jack Kornfield
Stop fighting
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Joy
Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy.
Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.
It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.
David Steindal-Rast osb
Sunday Quote: Simple words
Simple words, ongoing challenge….
Do not find fault with the present moment
Keizan Jokin, 1268 – 1325, second great founder of the Sōtō school of Zen
Completely whole
Intrinsically, we are all completely and perfectly sane. We are enveloped and imbued by this sanity.
But unable to bring ourselves to acknowledge this, we hatch a hodgepodge of beliefs which we embrace and then chase as if they were real, stumbling and falling on the great way.
Dōgen Zenji, 1200 -1253, Japanese Buddhist priest and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.
Time for oneself
Finding yourself doesn’t require that you fly to Tibet, join a convent, or build a meditation room.
Just consistently keep a minimal commitment to empty time.
Martha Beck
The changing of the year
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater.
We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long.
Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.
Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart
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