Tag: Be fully present

Over and over

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

There are no new stressful thoughts.

They’re all recycled.

Byron Katie

Sunday Quote: No bitterness

Karl Duffy1 Comment

To wander in the fields of flowers,

pull the thorns from your heart.  

Rumi

Making enemies

Karl Duffy1 Comment

The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations. What you can do to a person, you can also do to a situation: make it into an enemy. The implication is always: this should not be happening; I don’t want to be here; I don’t want to be doing this; I’m being treated unfairly. And the ego’s greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

No easy understanding

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

We live in a time of the dissected soul, the immediate disclosure; our thoughts, imaginings and longings exposed to the light too much, too early and too often, our best qualities squeezed too soon into a world already awash with too easily articulated ideas that oppress our sense of self and our sense of others. What is real is almost always to begin with, hidden, and does not want to be understood by the part of our mind that mistakenly thinks it knows what is happening….Hiding leaves life to itself, to become more of itself. Hiding is the radical independence necessary for our emergence into the light of a proper human future.

David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

Leaving a mark

Karl Duffy1 Comment

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said….It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime

Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

Sunday quote: How we work with things

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

It’s not the load that breaks you down.

It’s the way you carry it

C.S. Lewis