Sunday Quote: Working with the conditions in our life

Another storm system passing over Ireland today, in the very wet Autumn which we are having.

As the Arab proverb says: 

“The nature of the rain is the same,

but it makes thorns grow in the marshes

and flowers in the gardens

Anthony de Mello, Awareness

All is held

The leaves are falling, falling as from far off,
as though far gardens withered in the skies;
they are falling with denying gestures.

And in the nights the heavy earth is falling
from all the stars down into loneliness.

We are all falling. This hand falls.
And look at others; it is in them all.

And yet there is One who holds this falling
endlessly gently in his hands.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Autumn

Whats actually happening

Experiencing,

rather than trying to have special experiences,

is where real freedom lies

Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water

Create joy

Life will bring you pain all by itself.

Your responsibility is to create joy

Milton Erikson, American Psychologist,

Striving

One must bear in mind that there is a considerable difference between perfection and completeness….

The individual may strive after perfection,

but must suffer from the opposite of his [or her] intentions for the sake of ….. completeness.

Jung

Everything, everywhere

The gate of heaven is everywhere.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander