Tag: Be fully present

The trusting mind

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Instead of always struggling to fix the incomplete, non-perfect, nature of this world, we can relax, and find rest in the uncertainty:

One thing, all things move and intermingle, without distinction.

To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.

To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

Sengcan (529-613) Verses on the Faith Mind.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature

Antoni  Gaudi, 1852 – 1926 Catalan architect

Every minute

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Dialogue with the invisible can go on every minute,
and with surprising gaiety I am saying thank you as I
remember who I am, a woman learning to praise
something as small as dandelion petals floating on the
steaming surface of this bowl of vegetable soup,
my happy, savoring tongue.

Jeanne Lohmann, To Say Nothing But Thank You (extract)

Look for the beauty

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When there is love, there is beauty.

When love is drying up in your life, look for the beauty around you.

That is where love can be found.

Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

 

Patiently we practice every day

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Nothing which is ready-to-hand or present-to-hand within the world functions…. in the face of which anxiety is anxious.

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

Sunday Quote : Hope

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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for.

And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Untouched

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We are made – the scriptures of all religions assure us =  in the image of God. Nothing can change that original goodness. Whatever mistakes we have made in the past, whatever problems we may have in the present, in every one of us this “uncreated spark in the soul” remains untouched, ever pure, ever perfect. Even if we try with all our might to douse or hide it, it is always ready to set our personality ablaze with light.

Eknath Easwaran, 1910–1999,  Indian born spiritual teacher and author.