How you stand here is important.
How you
listen for the next things to happen.
How you breathe.
William Stafford, Being A person [extract]
Sunday Quote: How
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The nature of change
Breathing in, I see the beautiful leaves,
breathing out, I know they are impermanent.
Smiling at the nature of change
I enjoy their presence even more.
Thich Nhat Hanh.
Cosmic pain
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.
Pir Vilayat Khan, 1916 – 2004, Sufi Meditation teacher and writer
Sunday Quote: Perseverance
If we go forward, we die; if we go backward, we die.
So let’s go forward and die.
African Proverb
Arrogance
What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die – an infantile arrogance.
But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconceivable universe with our minds.
Carlos Castaneda, The Active Side of Infinity
Smoke and Mirrors
The Festival of Samhain, marking the end of the year and the beginning of the new one in the Celtic calendar. Traditionally, bonfires were lit to remind us that the encroaching darkness will not prevail
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire
There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch
But it’s a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight
Stay here at the flame’s core
Rumi
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