When you are content to be simply yourself
and don’t compare or compete,
everyone will respect you.
Lao Tzu
photo sander van der Wel
Tag: heart
Not always straight
It may be that
when we no longer know
what to do,
we have come
to our real work,
and when we
no longer know
which way to go,
we have begun
our real journey
Wendell Berry, The Real Work
photo Anna16
Grounded
The emphasis in working life is to get things done, get results and move things on, which can give each day a driven quality and make moment-to-moment awareness difficult. Grounding ourselves every now and then in the body and attuning simply and calmly to the breath can help us remain balanced, and allows us let go of some of the ways we can get locked into fixed positions:
May we learn to return
And rest in the beauty
Of animal being,
Learn to lean low,
Leave our locked minds,
and with freed senses
feel the earth breathing with us.
John O’Donoghue, “To Learn from Animal Being”
photo Ireen Trummer
Calm in the storm
Some wisdom on the place of meditation and non-doing in overcoming the difficulties of each day, from one of the Desert Fathers, 3rd Century Christian monks in Egypt
Abba Pastor said
“Any challenge that comes to you
can be overcome by silence”
photo itzafineday
Wonder and astonishment
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!”
and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Mary Oliver
photo s04av
An Easter Sunday Quote
My eyes already touch the sunny hill
going far ahead of the road I have begun
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp
It has its inner light even from a distance
and changes us even if we do not reach it
into something else, which hardly sensing it, we already are.
Rainer Maria Rilke
photo: oregon department of transportation
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