Take your busy heart to the art museum and the
chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you
were a child
is singing still.
Mary Oliver, What Can I Say
Tag: Be fully present
More than food
The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment.
It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought.
Thomas Moore
Here
When quiet and still,
we rediscover that regardless of where we search,
life is never someplace else.
Mark Nepo, The One Life We’re Given
Sunday Quote: If you make space
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
The Elephant already at home
Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower,
But is already present
In relaxation and letting go.
Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do.
As soon as you relax this grasping,
there is space – open, inviting and comfortable.
So make use of it. Everything is already yours.
Search no more.
Don’t go into the inextricable jungle
looking for the elephant who is already quietly at home.
Lama Gendun Rinpoche, Happiness
No fixed plan
We do not need to operate according to the idea of a pre-determined program or plan for our lives. Rather, we need to practice a new art of attention to the inner rhythm of our days and lives…Your soul knows the geography of your own destiny.
John O’Donohue
