The sailor who does not adjust to the wind conditions will have a difficult time.
One ship drives east and another drives west by the same winds that blow.
Its the set of the sails
and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 – 1919, American author and poet.
It’s not the road ahead that wears you out –
it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
Old Arabian Proverb
A lunar eclipse tonight
Just as we can’t see all the phases of the moon on any one night, we can’t hear the phases of truth or the heart unless we listen for how the truth of feeling grows full and dark and full again over time.
Patience, the art of waiting, is the heart-skill that opens the world. I’m discovering after all these years that listening deeply over time is one uninterrupted growing – one continuous act.
In this way, the tree on that ridge bending to the wind till it grows to the bend is how it listens over time. And in the act of receiving our darkest cries, the heart begins to soften the howl of our wound.
Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen
The moment you have the idea of becoming something, there is striving, there is effort, there is conflict.
But if you can simply observe what is without trying to change it, then there is a totally different kind of energy
– not the energy of resistance, but the energy of understanding.
Jiddu Krisnamurti, Freedom from the Known
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. It is also one of the most direct routes to happiness. When we appreciate what we have, instead of focusing on what we lack, we shift our entire perspective. A simple ‘thank you’ whispered to the universe for a moment of peace, a warm cup of tea, or the sound of rain can open the door to joy. Happiness thrives in a grateful heart.
Joseph Emet, Buddha’s Book of Happiness: Teachings for Achieving Lasting Peace, Joy, and Fearlessness
The Buddha said that all conditions =
whether they are internal conditions, bodily conditions or external conditions –
are not self, their nature is to change.
Contemplate this truth until you see it clearly
Ajahn Chah, Our Real Home
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