A similar theme on staying in the present moment, this time from the early Christian tradition
One of the early Desert Fathers said
‘There is no such thing as delay with the Holy Spirit.’
This means that everything happens at the right moment.
Laurence Freeman, Common Ground: Letters to a World Community of Meditators
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To trust in things being as they are is the secret of life.
But we don’t want to hear that.
I can absolutely trust that in the next year, my life is going to be changed, different…
but always just the way it is.
Charlotte Joko Beck
Have good trust in yourself,
not in the one that you think you should be
but in the one that you are
Taizan Maezumi, 1931— 1995, Japanese zen Buddhist teacher
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Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world revolves –
slowly, evenly,
without rushing toward the future
Thich Nhat Hanh
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In meditation one tries to calm the body and the senses, to calm the mind, and become what’s called “the silent witness,” the witness beyond the mind. We in the West think that the mind is everything, but all Eastern practice is to get beyond the mind to the point of the silent witness, where you’re witnessing yourself, where you’ve gone beyond the ego, beyond the self.
The Indian tradition rests on what the West has largely lost: that there are three levels. There is the level of the body and the level of the mind, which the Western world thinks is the end. But beyond the body is the spirit. And that is the goal of life, to get to that.
Bede Griffiths
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