The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact
that it was made by someone capable of believing
that an angel might come and sit on it.
Thomas Merton
photo carl wycoff, Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill.
Tag: Be fully present
A way of being present
Most people think of love as a feeling,
but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present
David Richo
Crafting meaning
Meaning does not come to us in finished form, ready-made;
it must be found, created, received, constructed.
We grow our way toward it.
Ann Bedford Ulanov
photo gnangarra
Never fully fixed
Self-love involves a yes to myself in whatever I am going through, instead of holding on to some concept of what or how I should be. Any idea I have about who I am or who I should be is never accurate, for it always falls short of the living presence that I am, as this unfolds freshly in each new moment. Who I am is not a fixed entity but a dynamic stream of experiencing that is alive in every moment – when I let myself happen.
John Welwood.
Cup by cup
But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,
and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds
with the wooden spoon, I remembered,
this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety
or of fruitfulness?
Marie Howe, American Poet, From Nowhere
Fully here
When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. The same is true of time. When you touch one moment with true awarenes, you touch all moments. According to the Avatamsaka Sutra, “The one contains the all”. If you live one moment deeply, that moment contains all the past and the future in it
Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home
