Existence will remain meaningless for you if you yourself do not penetrate into it with active love,
and if you do not in this way discover its meaning for yourself.
Everything is waiting to be hallowed by you.
Martin Buber
photo harry rose
Tag: Be fully present
Your entire love
Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else…What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
photo D.Sharon Pruitt
Sunday Quote: To see
What is the hardest thing of all?
What seems to be the easiest: to use your eyes to see what lies in front of you
Goethe, The Heart of Listening
What the mind is used to
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
photo D. Sharon Pruitt
All there is
Practice is just hearing, just seeing, just feeling. This is what Christians call the face of God: simply taking in this world as it manifests. We feel our body; we hear the cars and birds. That’s all there is.
Charlotte Joko Beck.
photo nottsexminer
Sunday Quote: Surprise
Expect nothing.
Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
