The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness.
Of these, only three involve misery or suffering.
Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
Stuck in repeat
Tag: Be fully present
Acceptance and openness
When you combine acceptance with responsibility and defenselessness, your work becomes an expression of your higher purpose.
You stop wasting energy resisting office politics, stressing over deadlines, or obsessing over outcomes.
Instead, you focus on creative solutions, trusting that the universe will support your intentions when you act in alignment with truth and compassion.
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Sunday Quote: Live by love
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
e e cummings, dive for dreams
a grateful life
Picked some ripe blackberries beside the woodland path I walked along yesterday evening. Freely given, like all of life, and not to be taken, as we say, “for granted.” The only real response is gratefulness.
Be still, my soul, and steadfast.
Earth and heaven both are still watching
though time is draining from the clock
and your walk, that was confident and quick,
has become slow.
So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
Love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience. Let God and the world
know you are grateful. That the gift has been given.
Mary Oliver, The Gift
Underneath
The peace that is the nature of being is not a state of the mind; it is the nature of the mind.
It is the peace that passeth understanding –
the peace that has nothing to do with what is, or what is not, taking place in experience
Rupert Spira, Your True Home, A Meditation on Experience
Control
To think we can control the world is an illusion.
But we can control how we relate to it.
Jon Kabat Zinn
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