In a world that lives like a fist
trust is no more than waking
with your hands open.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
photo angie garrett
Tag: growth
Blossom
How strange that the nature of life is to change but the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into what we were meant to be
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
Determination
And consider, always, every day,
the determination of the grass to grow despite the unending obstacles.
Mary Oliver
photo Takashi Hososhima
Sunday Quote: Treasure
The cave you are afraid to enter
[is..] the source of what you are looking for.
Joseph Campbell
photo EMeczKa
Back to basics
Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don’t be interested in anything else. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. Don’t take up anything else. There’s no need to think about gaining things. Don’t take up anything at all. Simply know the in-breath and the out-breath. The in-breath and the out-breath. [In] on the in-breath; [out] on the out-breath. Just stay with the breath in this way until you are aware of the in-breath and aware of the out-breath….aware of the in-breath…. aware of the out-breath. Be aware in this way until the mind is peaceful, without irritation, without agitation, merely the breath going out and coming in. Let your mind remain in this state.
Do it as if you won’t gain anything, as if nothing will happen, as if you don’t know who’s doing it, but keep doing it anyway. Like rice in the barn. You take it out and sow it in the fields, as if you were throwing it away, sow it throughout the fields, without being interested in it, and yet it sprouts, rice plants grow up, you transplant it and you’ve got sweet green rice. That’s what it’s about.
Ajahn Chah
photo supercarwaar
Self blessing
All of us, from time to time, doubt our inner goodness and beauty. We have to rediscover it within or be reminded by others that it lies there:
Sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within
of self-blessing.
Galway Kinnell, St Francis and the Sow
photo NNU-12-22100555
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