Knowing the seasons

The first day of a new season in the old Celtic calendar

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we humans know when it is time to move on? 

As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

In our minds

We don’t really hear what people say,

We imagine what they mean

Byron Katie

From the heart

You are what your deep, driving desire is.

As is your desire, so is your intention.

As is your intention, so is your will.

As is your will, so is your deed

As your deed is, so is your destiny,

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Hindu Scriptures, 7th-6th century BCE.

Thoughts

Each thought creates according to its own nature.

Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893 – 1952

Not a straight line

The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

Sunday Quote: Inner work

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything

Shunryu Suzuki roshi, Zen Mind, Beginniers Mind