In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.
Paolo Coehlo
Sunday Quote: Journey
Tag: Be fully present
Going deeper
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life
Jung
Lean forward
The truth is that every fresh experience has this dizziness of freedom that we must move through. Every time we reach beyond what is familiar, there is this necessary acclimation to what is new. It is the doorway to all learning. We needn’t be afraid of it or give it too much power. We simply have to keep leaning into what we are learning.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Have wings
Sentiments – on a very cold and wintry New Years Eve morning in Ireland – for the end of this year and the start of a new one:
Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
Mary Oliver, Starlings in Winter
Keep going
Tighter restrictions imposed again after the brief respite of Christmas. Noticing small moments of beauty nourish the spirit
Friend, we’re travelling together.
Throw off your tiredness.
Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
Rumi
Sunday Quote: Fully present
Experiencing,
rather than trying to have special experiences,
is where real freedom lies
Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water
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