Each time we go out, the world is open and free; it offers itself so graciously to our hearts, to create something new and wholesome from it each day. It is a travesty of possibility and freedom to think we have no choice, that things are the way they are and that the one street, the one right way is all that is allotted to us. Certainty is a subtle destroyer…
John O Donohue, Eternal Echoes
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment.
Eckhart Tolle
We humans have a tendency to lean into the future or to seek something “more exciting” than what is in front of us. The challenge is to be fully awake and fully invested in the completeness of the present moment.
The moon and the sun are eternal travellers.
Even the years wander on.
A lifetime adrift in a boat or old age leading a tired horse into the years,
every day is a journey and the journey itself is home
Matsuo Basho, 17th century Japanese poet, Narrow Road to the Interior.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you
Clarissa-Pinkola-Estés
What progress, you ask, have I made?
I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato of Rhodes, c. 100 BC, Stoic philosopher, quoted in Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium VI
Sometimes things work out when you do not force them, but rather let your inner wisdom make itself clear through a period of quiet or rest.
If any one cannot grasp this matter,
let them be idle
and the matter will grasp them.
Henry Suso, German Dominican friar, 1295- 1366, The Exemplar
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