Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
Galway Kinnell, Prayer
photo thomas brown
Tag: Be fully present
Really Looking
I look;
Morning to night I am never done with looking.
Looking, I mean not just standing around,
but standing around
as though with your arms open.
Mary Oliver, Where does the Temple Begin, Where does it End?
Learning to stop
A lot of rain these last few days….
Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.
Rumi, You are the Only Student you Have
photo keith salvesan
Placing demands on ourselves
What shuts down the heart more than anything is not letting ourselves have our own experience, but instead judging it, criticizing it, or trying to make it different from what it is. We often imagine there is something wrong with us if we feel angry, needy, dependent, lonely, confused, sad, or scared. We place conditions on ourselves and our experience: “If I feel like this, there must be something wrong with me. . . . I can only accept myself if my experience conforms to my standard of how I should be“. Psychological work, when practiced in a larger spiritual context, can help people discover that it is possible to be unconditional with themselves — to welcome their experience and hold it with understanding and compassion, whether or not they like it at any given moment.
John Welwood, Toward a Psychology of Awakening
photo Sheila Sund
In the present
The past is not clinging to you; you are clinging to the past.
Once you are not clinging, the past simply evaporates
Osho
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Practicing, not talking
We often prefer talking about something, rather than actually doing it, and the mind continually produces good ways of running away from the present moment:
Speech is born out of longing, true description from the real taste
The one who tastes, knows,
The one who explains, lies
Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī, c 713 – 801 AD, Sufi poet and mystic
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