How to move through this day

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Body, like a mountain,

Heart,  like the sea

Mind, like the sky.

Dogen

photo of portmarnock strand by bonners2

Always there

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Out here it’s impossible to be lonely.
The land walking beside you is your oldest friend,
pleasantly silent, like already you’ve told the best stories
and each of you knows how much the other made up.

Naomi Shihab Nye, At the Seven Mile Ranch, Comstock, Texas

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig 

  Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

Moments

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There is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day

Beyond words

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Happy are those who know:
Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;

And from that source alone, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness,

and us — free of our bridges,
Built with the stone of distinctions;
So that always, within each delight,
We gaze at what is purely single and joined.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As the week begins

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Mysteriously, wonderfully,

I bid farewell to what goes

I greet what comes;

for what comes cannot be denied

and what goes cannot be detained

Chuang Tzu

Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?

(But where are the snows of yesteryear?)

French saying

photo of last fridays Spring weather in Kildare

Sunday Quote: In the heart

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If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:

Listen to the secret sound,

the real sound,

which is within you

Kabir