Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
A white flower grows in quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower
Rumi
Tag: growth
We cannot run away from ourselves
You can outdistance that which is running after you,
but cannot outdistance that which is running inside you.
African proverb
Working with our emotions 3:Not taking in suffering
To acknowledge that suffering has an origin is already a form of abandonment of sorts. It means rather than thinking “I am the victim of a frustrating world that refuses to conform to my wishes” , we acknowledge that suffering is an inevitable part of life and it is something we take within ourselves by the way we react to circumstances…..We tend to personalize everything. Why everything gets at us and makes us so angry is because of something our mind is doing – but to acknowledge that entails giving up some position of “me” and “my emotions” that are right and justified. Now, I’m not saying that abandonment means not feeling anything – that attitude really drives people into dangerously repressed places. The way is about seeing how things get under our skin ad chafe our heart. It’s about abandoning the action of taking in dukkha. We widen our perspective into being aware of how we are feeling and with that clear and steady awareness, we can watch the mental process very carefully.
Ajahn Sucitto, Turning the Wheel of Truth
A wish when times are difficult
Help us to be the always-hopeful gardeners of the spirit,
who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth,
as without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
Having infinite faith in each other
Même pour le simple envol d’un papillon,
tout le ciel est nécessaire.
(Even for the simple flight of a butterfly,
all of the sky is necessary.)
Paul Claudel
When we are hurting
Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. Rumi
It is a bewildering thing in human life, that the thing that causes the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom. Jung
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