Tag: Be fully present

Manipulating the world

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Your mind has very little control over this world. It is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. It cannot control the weather and other natural forces. Nor can it control all people, places, and things around you. You have given your mind an impossible task by asking it to manipulate the world in order to fix your personal inner problems.

If you want to achieve a healthy state of being, stop asking your mind to do this. Just relieve your mind of the job of making sure that everyone and everything will be the way you need them to be so that you can feel better inside. 

Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul

Know your own song

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A bird gets up every morning and sings its song.

It does not wait to hear what other birds are singing, nor does it look to see if another bird is getting more notice. It knows its song innately and sings.

This is nature: knowing your own song

Michele Oka Doner, 1945 – American artist and author

Being peaceful at work

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Do your work,

then step back

– the only path to peacefulness.

Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Happy

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Yesterday, Irish people wished everyone a “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day” or if in the Irish language, “the blessings of Saint Patrick’s Day”. But what do these related terms “Happy” and “Blessed” mean?

By happiness I mean a deep sense of flourishing which comes from an exceptionally heathy mind

This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion or a mood, but an optimal state of being

Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Matthieu Ricard, Happiness

Sunday Quote: the holy tree

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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there

W.B. Yeats, Irish Poet, The Two Trees

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

True wealth

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For in the true nature of things,

if we rightly consider,

every green tree is far more glorious

than if it were made of silver or gold

Martin Luther King