Wherever you go,
you meet a part of your story.
Eudora Welty, 1909–2001, American short-story writer and novelist
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Tag: Be fully present
Sunday Quote: sanctuary
In the monastery of your heart
you have a temple
where all Buddhas unite
Jetsun Milarepa, 1052 – 1135
No possibility is lost
Dear Lou, I cannot be entirely unhappy
You have shown me that I am still somehow the same,
even the same in a more strengthened way,
that actually none of my old possibilities are .. lost,
perhaps they are really all there,
only that for a while I don’t know how to use them
Rilke, Letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé
Appreciative awareness
One of the first things you learn when you travel is that
nowhere is magical unless you can bring the right eyes to it.
You take an angry man to the Himalayas, he just starts complaining about the food.
Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness
The loss of mystery
Our present lives are dominated by the goddess Reason,
who is our greatest and most tragic illusion.
By the aid of reason, so we assure ourselves, we have “conquered nature”.
Jung
Inherently fluid
The self is a verb, not a noun.
It’s a process of grasping and clinging = a habitual tendency to solidify what is inherently fluid.
When you see this, the ‘self’ unravels.
Guo Gu, Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening
