On the day of the Summer Solstice and the longest day of the year…
If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are,
and where we come from,
we will have failed
Carl Sagan, 1934 – 1996 U.S. Astronomer and Cosmologist
Tag: balance
A day for letting go of ideas
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
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Creating our reality
Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, “The flag moves.” The other said, “The wind moves.” They argued back and forth but could not agree. Hui-neng, said: “Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves.” The two monks were struck with awe.
Chinese master Hui-neng (638-713), the Sixth Ch’an Patriarch is considered by some to be the true father of Zen.
photo matt brown
Being fully, honestly, here
Episcopal Priest Robert Farrer Capon warns “We spend a long time wishing we were elsewhere and otherwise“. We are like the character in the movie Postcards from the Edge who sends a card home from vacation, “Having a wonderful time. Wish I were here”
Frederic Brussat, Spiritual Literacy
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Busy
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy
— to be someone who is brisk about his food and his work.
Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855, Danish Philosopher
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Sunday Quote: Still Water
On the 150th anniversary of his birth:
We can make our minds so like still water
that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images,
and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life, because of our quiet.
W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Faerie and Folklore
photo miguel virkkunen carvalho
