The point here is to take life in all its rich variety just as it is, with its ten thousand opposites, and to go along with whatever circumstances require, embracing things after their own inclination or according to chance, letting things be rather than getting in their way, and thus allowing each and every thing, each and every appearance, to pursue a meaning and purpose distinct from my own.
Katō Totsudō 1870 – 1949, Japanese writer
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
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
The only way to reach the truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision.
Osho
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]
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
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