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
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is within you
Kabir
And now the teaching on yoga begins….
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.
When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded consciousness.
Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, c 400 AD.
The world around us would be desolate
except for the world within us
Wallace Stevens, from The Snow Man
phot Kor!An
This is the real secret of life
to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play
Alan Watts
photo vatobob
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular
but because it never forgot what it could do
Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous
photo tony hisgett
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