Sometimes in our lives we have to let go of things which once seemed important in order to allow the space to be filled with new things. However, this requires courage, and we often avoid it by preferring to be occupied, to fill up empty space and time.
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs.
But many of us fear emptiness.
We prefer to remain…surrounded by things…which we imagine are subject to our control.
Wayne Muller
Everything inside and everything around us wants to reflect itself in us.
We don’t have to go anywhere to obtain the truth.
We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of the heart
Thich Nhat Hahn
Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day, the Patron Saint of the Irish, so a few posts on identity, home, the self and being secure in who we are.
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. Some find it in the place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. There are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe. We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock of recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.
Josephine Hart
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.
Rumi
This Thai text was recently sent to me. It is beautiful in its simplicity. It was chosen to be read at a marriage ceremony and thus can be seen as a guide for a life in friendship together.
ที่สุดของการให้คือ…การให้โดยไม่หวังผล
ที่สุดของทานคือ…อภัยทาน
ที่สุดของความรักคือ…การรักโดยไม่ครอบครอง
ที่สุดของคนคือ…การเป็นคนธรรมดาที่มีความสุข
The ultimate in giving is…to give selflessly without thought of reward,
The ultimate in charity is…to forgive oneself and others,
The ultimate in love is…to love without the will to possess,
The ultimate in being human is…to be contented and live one’s life with love and happiness.
You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.
Jung
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