When you are compassionate with yourself,
you trust in your soul,
which you let guide your life.
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny
better than you do.
John O’Donohue
Tag: balance
Sunday Quote: Freedom
The only freedom is the freedom from the known
J Krisnamurti
photo carl magnus-helgegren
Trust
The center that I cannot find
is known to my unconscious mind.
W.H. Auden
Representations and reality
Consciousness works by making maps, and there is always a gap between our maps and the territory of our lives. A surprise is a landscape feature that was not on my map. Surprises are common and an indication you are alive. Our representations are fragile and based on poor data. The mind assigns value to events, saying, “This is good” and “This is bad,” but the values we give things are usually just arm-waving and scrambling about. The world is truly unpredictable in its consequences and our reactions to events are also unpredictable, even if we have a deep meditation practice.
We can make an ally of surprise. Meditation methods are not intended to make the world predictable, but they provide a space in which we can have our reactions without fighting with ourselves. And in the end, meditation resets the maps and opinions to zero. When we meditate, there is nothing else in the world, and whatever we have is enough.
John Tarrant, 7 Ways to Make the Most of Life’s Surprises.
At ease with whatever is here
Settling, white dew
does not discriminate
each drop its home
Nishiyama Soin, 1605 – 1682, Japanese poet
photo devilal
Your entire love
Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else…What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
photo D.Sharon Pruitt
