Tag: Be fully present

Seeking and finding

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When someone is seeking, said Siddartha, It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. 

Seeking means: to have a goal;

but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

You are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

Sunday quote: Mystery

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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery.

There is always more mystery.

Anaïs Nin

Where to focus

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Focus not on the rudeness of others,
not on what they’ve done or left undone,
but on what you have and  haven’t done
yourself.

Dhammapada, 4

 

Everything in just one moment

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Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
Lewis Carroll

More than just you

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You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own.

The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from  Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, In Praise of  Mortality–Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.

What is here, is good enough

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Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

Ajahn Sumedho