In moments of darkness and pain
remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door
Spring will come again
Loy Ching-Yuen (1873 – 1960) Chinese Taoist tai chi master.
Sit quietly
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Make peace
Good feelings, bad feelings – we’re never going to get away from them.
The whole teaching is to completely make peace with everything –
to be able to just be with anything, completely.
Soeng Hyang, 1948 – Buddhist teacher
Being open to surprises
Even the long-beloved
was once an unrecognized stranger.
Just so, the chipped lip of a blue-glazed cup,
blown field of a yellow curtain,
might also,
flooding and falling,
ruin your heart.
A table painted with roses.
An empty clothesline.
Each time,
the found world surprises –
that is its nature.
And then
what is said by all lovers:
“What fools we were, not to have seen.”
Jane Hirshfield, Meeting the Light Completely
control
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future
but from wanting to control it
Kahlil Gibran
What would it be like?
More John O ’Donohue after some very windy and rainy days…
How would it be to allow for knowing
and not knowing: allowing room
for the mystery of creating
to be able to wonder softly
without needing to understand everything
to trust in the process
to trust in love
to trust in the mystery and wonder
of the universe
that beats softly wildly true
all round about us,
that is hidden in the mists
in the clouds and the rain
in the wind blowing and the rain lashing down on your window.
Shelter and blessings
Ireland is under a red storm warning for today, but what is being called the worst storm ever to hit the country passing over. People have been asked to “shelter in place”…
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings.
Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.
John O’Donohue
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