Tag: Be fully present

Take time

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If we can be quieter, more in the moment with what is actually happening, a world of perception opens up for us based on where we are, not on where we one day hope to be. “Nobody sees a flower, really; it is so small,” said artist Georgia O’Keeffe. “We haven’t time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” If we learn to take a little more time and be more fully aware of just where we are, we might see many new flowers and have many more friends.

Sharon Salzberg, The Power of Patience

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Noticing the journey

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Every day is a journey,

and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Bashô,  Oku no Hosomichi (1689).

photo Graham Cole

….its already here

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“The Island that you cannot go beyond” is the metaphor for this state of being awake and aware, as opposed to the concept of becoming awake and aware. [It]….is very powerful, because it points to the principle of an awareness that you can’t get beyond. It’s very simple, very direct, and you can’t conceive it. You have to trust it. You have to trust this simple ability that we all have to be fully present and fully awake, and begin to recognize the grasping and the ideas we have taken on about ourselves, about the world around us, about our thoughts and perceptions and feelings. The way of mindfulness is the way of recognizing conditions just as they are. We simply recognize and acknowledge their presence, without blaming them or judging them or criticizing them or praising them. We allow them to be, the positive and the negative both.

Ajahn Sumedho, A difficulty with the word nibbana

photo of full moon over the Skellig islands, off Co Kerry, by bloodybucaneer

Sunday Quote: wherever you are…

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Wherever you stand

be the soul of that place

Rumi

photo harald hoyer

Not always making it into a story

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I should be content

to look at a mountain

for what it is

and not as a comment

on my life.

David Ignatow, American poet

Not living in our stories

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Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not.

Hearing what is can make you wise.

Hearing what is not can drive you mad

Ghalib, Persian Poet, 1797 –  1869