The sun will set without your assistance
Talmud quote found in H. Polano The Talmud: Selections
Let go
Tag: Be fully present
Schedules
A Bank Holiday here in Ireland; a non-working day and so a different way in which we relate to time:
So many times I have been unable to listen or to notice what someone was going through or where they were headed because it didn’t meet with my schedule. Patience and timing are inextricably linked. Patience, which we can regard with such excruciation, offers a hidden reward. When we stop watching the pot, we may learn that it boils right on time.
Sometimes my father would forget to wind the big clock, the weights would fall, and time would stop.
We wind the clock. It does not have to wind us.
Barry Boyce, What Time is Now?
Sunday Quote: Drink in
Set wide the window
Let me drink the day
Edith Wharton
Look out, and breathe
We are encouraged to drop the storyline and simply pause, look out, and breathe. Simply be present for a few seconds, a few minutes, a few hours, a whole lifetime, with our own shifting energies and with the unpredictability of life as it unfolds, wholly partaking in all experiences just exactly as they are. What I’m advocating is that in that precious moment we start to make choices that lead to happiness and freedom rather than choices that lead to unnecessary suffering and the obscuration of our intelligence, our warmth, our capacity to remain open and present with the natural movement of life.
Pema Chodron
Resting on the waves
To find the Buddhist law, drift east and west, come and go, entrusting yourself to the waves.
Ryokon, 18th Century Zen poet
The “Buddhist law” refers to the truth of how things really are. We can’t understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.There’s no way to see clearly what’s going on if on some level we’re attempting to ignore or bypass the stormy weather.
By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through me, I began to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, I rested in an ocean of awareness that embraced all the moving waves. I’d arrived in a sanctuary that felt large enough to hold whatever was going on in my life.
Tara Brach, Entrusting Yourself to the Waves
Sunday Quote: Be fully present
If we live everything,
life will be faithful to us.
John O’Donohue
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