Tag: balance

In-between places

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In a similar fashion, they believed that Halloween was the time in the year when these two worlds were closest.

The ancient Druids are said to have taken a special interest in in-between things like mistletoe, which is neither quite a plant nor quite a tree, and mist, which is neither quite a rain nor quite air, and dreams, which are neither quite waking nor quite sleep. They believed that in such things as those they were able to glimpse the mystery of the two worlds at once

Frederick Buechner 1926 – 2022, American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian

Simple. Be present

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I don’t know anything about consciousness.

I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing

Shunryu Suzuki roshi, 1904 – 1971

Even a brief moment

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Even the briefest moment of silence is both

a way of coming into the present

and a way of moving on.

Jon Kabat Zinn

Sunday Quote: Be silent

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Be silent

only the hand of God can remove the burdens of the heart

Rumi

Tolerance

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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.

Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.


The Dalai Lama

Not more, but less

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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. 

Completion comes, not from adding another piece to ourselves,

but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

Mark Epstein, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective