What you need,
what we all need, is silence,
Stop the noise in your mind,
in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard
Thich Nhat Hahn
a real break
Tag: balance
awareness
Suffering does not belong to awareness; it belongs only to the illusory separate self.
When a thought or feeling appears and we say, ‘This is my sadness,’ we have already misidentified awareness as a person who owns an experience.
But awareness itself is free of suffering – it is like the sky that remains untouched by the storm clouds passing through it.
To abide as awareness is to be free of suffering, not because suffering is denied, but because it is no longer claimed as ‘mine‘
Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware
Sunday Quote: stop
When you stop trying to achieve,
you discover what has always been there.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
devoted to gratitude
What would it be like
to awaken to a day devoted to gratitude
a day of thankfulness for what was
and yet will be?
Stephen Levine
A poem for those who struggle
When you are in darkness, feeling pitiful or alone,
remember you are blessed with a soul
that is more receptive to the Spirit
and closer to love, joy and peace
than you were when life seemed grand.
This is what “blessed are the poor in Spirit”
means.
Meister Eckhart
Different rhythms
Violence is done to the soul when we are forced to live at a pace that is not our own, when we are held to standards that are not our own, when we are denied the right to rest in the rhythms of our own being.
Parker Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness
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