Saying yes

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I rarely let the word “no” escape

from my mouth

because it is plain to my soul

that God has shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes!”

to every luminous moment of existence.

Hafiz

 

Where you are

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I said to the wanting-creature inside me:
What is this river you want to cross?
Do you believe there is some place that will make the
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don’t go off somewhere else!

Kabir says this: just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

Kabir

Sacred

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When you treat your time as though you are a machine;

a doing machine;

you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

Philip Moffitt

Beyond words

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Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;

And from that source alone, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness,

and us — free of our bridges,
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As the week begins

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Mysteriously, wonderfully,

I bid farewell to what goes

I greet what comes;

for what comes cannot be denied

and what goes cannot be detained

Chuang Tzu

Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?

(But where are the snows of yesteryear?)

French saying

photo of last fridays Spring weather in Kildare

Sunday Quote: In the heart

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If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:

Listen to the secret sound,

the real sound,

which is within you

Kabir