Piglet noticed that even
though he had a very small heart,
it could hold a rather
large amount of gratitude.
A.A. Milne
Even though
Tag: heart
Healing
As the Summer Solstice approaches….
Shamanic healing is not about fixing what has gone wrong.
It’s about growing a new body that heals, ages, and dies consciously.
Alberto Villoldo, 1949 -, Cuban psychologist and medical anthropologist, writer on the healing practices of the Amazon and the Andean shamans.
A motto for life
More from the always inspiring Dogen. Very little can be added to this as we start another week…
In performing your duties maintain
joyful mind,
kind mind
and great mind
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist monk, founder of the Soto school of Zen.
How we live our moments
Like it or not,
this moment is all we really have ot work with
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Let things pass.
As a new month is about to begin….
If I had to sum up [meditation] practice in three words, without hesitation, I’d go for “Let things pass.”
In the midst of chaos or deep in one’s inner battlefields, dare to make the experiment of not controlling, of dropping the self. It’s mayhem, but there’s no problem! Far from giving up and far from resignation, letting things pass means distinguishing between the psychodramas (the problems created by conceptual mind) and the genuine tragedies of existence, which call for solidarity, commitment, and perseverance.
Meditating is stripping down, daring to live nakedly in order to give oneself, contributing to the welfare of the world, giving one’s share. Why don’t we look at the day that lies ahead of us not as a store where we can acquire things, but as a clinic, a dispensary of the soul, where together we can recover and advance?
Alexandre Jollien, 1975 – Swiss philosopher and writer
Earplugs
Being preoccupied with ourselves is like being deaf and blind.
It’s like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads.
It’s like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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