Tag: Be fully present

Releasing that thought

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We have to let go of that black hole of ‘not enough.’ This is because although it feels like a hole, a lack, it’s actually a block….

What is needed then isn’t filling it, but releasing it….

What feels wrong at this time? What shouldn’t be here right now? Whatever it is, accept it. The more you don’t want it, the bigger it gets. How do you want things to be right now? Relinquish it. The more you want it, the farther you push it away. Daily life practice is to keep working against that [voice] which keeps saying, ‘I’m fed up with this. I’ve had enough of this. I don’t want to be in this situation. I can’t stand this another minute’.

Ajahn Sucitto

Fresh eyes

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The freshness of simple being, before all the “shoulds” and “oughts” take over

There is a small opening into the new day,

that closes the moment you begin your plans

David Whyte

Sunday Quote: Letting judgments go

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The only way to reach the truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision. 

Osho

When you feel lost

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When we feel lost we sometimes need to take time, to stand still, and let the outside world speak to us, rather than just listening to the voices in our own minds.

No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost.

Stand still.

The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

David Wagoner, Lost [estract]

The reality

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It’s quite illusory to hang on to a private, hidden, truer self apart from how you actually are,

even if therapy promotes this grand illusion and profits from it.

Instead, the realism of Heraclitus: You are how you are.
  

James Hillman

Without effort

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The principles of all things arise without effort,

Water does not need to think to offer itself as a home for clear moonlight.

Sōgi 1421–1502, Japanese poet