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Not seeing

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As I was driving the other day in Kildare I noticed silhouettes of bare trees on the hill tops and it remanded me of this quote. We do not always see the full story of what is happening in our lives. We have to hold a space for not-knowing, for allowing things to develop at their own pace.

I prefer winter ……when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.

Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

Andrew Wyatt,  American Painter

Not always making it into a story

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I should be content

to look at a mountain

for what it is

and not as a comment

on my life.

David Ignatow, American poet

Not living in our stories

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Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not.

Hearing what is can make you wise.

Hearing what is not can drive you mad

Ghalib, Persian Poet, 1797 –  1869

Flow

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Even if people know that names aren’t reality,
They don’t see that reality itself has no root.
Name … reality … both are beside the point.

Find joy in the ever-shifting flow.

Ryokan

photo Thailand, Quentin and Bianca King,

The secret

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sheep herding2Joy is

being willing for things to be

as they are

Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special

Losing our ground

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Our lives suffer from a lack of meaning that disguises itself as consumerism and a host of other addictions. Having lost our spiritual grounding […] we experience our groundlessness as an unbearable lightness of being. The tragic dialectic between security and freedom reasserts itself: having attained some measure of self-determination and confronted the lack at its core, we now crave the grounding that would connect our own aspirations with something greater than ourselves.

David Loy, A Buddhist History of the West