Don’t forget

Life is completely still.

It is without excitement.

It is always still, indifferent to

whether or not your life is dramatic

Joko Dave Haselwood, 1931 – 2014, Zen teacher

Life is too short

My motto for this week

Stop giving your precious energy

to things that make you feel bad.

Louise Hay

Sunday quote: Not accepting

After another week in which we were told to fear one another, where bullying masquerades as a virtue, and common decency in relationships is treated as a weakness…

Why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society?

If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it

Krisnamurti, Commentaries on Living [Commonly rendered as It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society]

When you feel stuck

Ishi no ue ni mo sannen (石の上にも三年) Well known Japanese Proverb

Literal meaning: “Three years on a stone.”

Its wisdom is deceptively simple: patience transforms even the toughest challenges. Sit on a cold stone long enough, and eventually it will grow warm. Similarly, sometimes the breakthrough occurs not through intensity but through continuity.

thinking shifts

We cannot always control events, but we author the meaning assigned to them

I do not fix problems

I fix my thinking.

Then problems fix themselves.

Louise Hay

The real cause of problems is not life itself.

Its the commotion the mind makes about life that really cause problems

Michael A.Singer, The Untethered Soul

Trust

You know that the flower bends

when the wind wants it to,

and you must become like that

that is, filled with deep trust

Rilke, Early Journals