No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.
Chuck Palahniuk,1962 – American writer, Invisible Monsters
At the end of this Mid-Summer week with the “longest” day
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,
then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present
Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.431
Truth exists as much in your teacup as it does in your temples and churches. Truth is as present in shopping for your groceries as it is in chanting to God.
To think of truth only in spiritual or religious terms is to miss the whole of it, for in doing so you create the boundaries and divisions that are the very antithesis of truth. Truth is an immeasurable reality not at all separate from your own being. For in the revelation of truth, all beings rest within your being.
Put more simply, if you cannot find it now underfoot, I’m afraid that you have missed it entirely.
Adyashanti
Your identity is not equivalent to your biography.
There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there’s still a sureness in you, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you.
And I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner kind of sanctuary.
John O’Donohue, The Inner Landscape of Beauty
We understand that the nature of the mind is to wander. In this wandering everything that is encountered is a teaching., a pointing to a life that can be vividly lived. And every path that we wander leads to the same place “Here”.
The realization of the continual return to this moment, this time, this place is liberating. A sense of wonder arises, of not-knowing, and deeply trusting this feeling of simple presence.
Melissa Myozen Blacker in Living Mindfully: 52 weekly quotes and Mindfulness practices
The Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The swallows in full flight across the fields having made their long journey to nest here.
When you set off on a path, the first thing you do is surrender yourself to a greater power, for you will encounter things you will not understand. You will understand things only with your heart, and that can be a little frightening. For a long time, the journey will seem like a Dark Night, but then any search is an act of faith. But God, who is far harder to understand than a Dark Night, appreciates our act of faith and takes our hand and guides us through the Mystery.
Paolo Coelho, Brida
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