I don’t want to get to the end of my life
and find that I have lived just the length of it.
I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman, 1948, American poet, essayist, and naturalist
Fully
Tag: Be fully present
Sunday Quote: Constant practice
Your brain is not designed to make you happy.
That’s your job.
Tony Robbins
The centre of the circle
The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.
The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 29 (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Grumbling
It takes faith to believe in tomorrow. But I think it takes more faith to believe that I am where I’m meant to be in my life right now
It’s easy to have hopes and dreams for our future, to have plans. We all need those. They help direct our path. And having things to look forward to, even the little things, makes life fun.
But having faith that on some far-off day our lives are going to be great and better – believing in tomorrow – doesn’t take nearly as much spiritual discipline as it does to believe in today.
Sometimes I really don’t like some of the things I have to do or that are going on in my life. I tend to weigh myself down with mumbling and grumbling, balking, digging my heels in, obsessing, dreading, ….and generally making things worse than they are. It’s not enough that I have to go through, endure, or do what I must. I make the job three times as hard with my attitude.
Melody Beattie, Faith
Nothing missing
There is no such thing
as an underdeveloped moment
Trungpa Rinpoche
The little things
Little things may seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odourless but all together perfume the air.
George Bernanos
