We are locked inside our brains, cut off from the present moment, always centered on something beyond our reach. We are imagining this mirage of happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment which will magically appear once this and this and this happens. But what’s happening right now is “it” and it’s the only “it” we have. The rest is just fabrication.
Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake
Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
Pema Chodron
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
If you only walk on sunny days,
you’ll never reach your destination
Paulo Coelho
What matters in life is not what happens to you,
but what you remember and how you remember it
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Phádraig daoibh go léir!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.
The clouds above us come together and disperse;
The breeze in the yard departs and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can keep us from celebrating?
Lu Yu, Chinese tea master, 733 – 804
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