Ordinary life

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When it’s time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for enlightenment. When you’re tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.
Linji Yixuan, Chan Buddhist,  died 866
photo pavel

Seeing the magic today

tree light

The world is full of magic things

patiently waiting for our senses to get sharper

wb Yeats

 

Sunday Quote: Waking up

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It is a serious thing

just to be alive

on this fresh morning

in the broken world.

Mary Oliver

photo sharon mollerus

True to oneself

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I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,

or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular

but because it never forgot what it could do

Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous

photo tony hisgett

Illusions

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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion.

This is it.

Jon Kabat Zinn

photo thhe at english wikipedia

Focus on the now

killeshin

We are endlessly offered into life: all time is ours.
And what any one of us might be worth,
death alone knows – and does not tell.

Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 24