Tag: heart

The World is always partly Veiled

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Komorebi (木漏れ日) is a beautiful Japanese word for the light filtering through trees – everchanging – reminding us of the fleeting uniqueness of each moment.

Understanding this leads to a contentment with the Universe and with oneself.

Not a bad philosophy for a New Year…

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

Mary Oliver, When I am Among the Trees

What am I looking for?

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The symbol of the heart has often been used to express love…… Some have questioned whether this symbol is still meaningful today. Yet living as we do in an age of superficiality, rushing frenetically from one thing to another without really knowing why, and ending up as insatiable consumers and slaves to the mechanisms of a market unconcerned about the deeper meaning of our lives, all of us need to rediscover the importance of the heart

Instead of running after superficial satisfactions and playing a role for the benefit of others, we would do better to think about the really important questions in life. Who am I, really? What am I looking for? What direction do I want to give to my life, my decisions and my actions? Why and for what purpose am I in this world? How do I want to look back on my life once it ends? What meaning do I want to give to all my experiences? …All these questions lead us back to the heart.

Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos

An unshakeable sense

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The great paradox … is that the more we let go of our grasping and clinging, the more we find ourselves filled with an unshakable sense of wholeness.

The practice of yoga is not about achieving some distant perfection but about uncovering the perfection that is already here, hidden beneath the layers of our conditioning

Stephen Cope, The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living

Sunday Quote: Trust the process

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Often, we focus only on the final goal and feel overwhelmed by its scale. The journey itself is the true architect of achievement.

‘Step by step, a path;

stone by stone, a cathedral,’

my great-grandfather used to say.

Phil Cousineau Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

What treasures today?

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Religion for the dervishes is searching….
for it is the custom of kings to
bury treasures in deserted places.

Qadi Husayn Maybudi, 1449 – 1504, Iranian scholar

Don’t be concerned

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Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life.

And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Eckhart Tolle,  A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose