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
Sunday Quote: real progress
Tag: heart
Be patient
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
Caught in the middle
“No-thought” does not mean cutting off thinking – it means there is no fixation with regard to the free flow of our thinking. We don’t need to reify or solidify what we experience into my thoughts, my feelings. If self-grasping is present, then thoughts don’t flow. When we suffer, we are caught in the middle of the stories that we’re fabricating, and, in this way, we prolong our suffering.
Guo Gu, Silent Illumination
Sunday Quote: Drink in
Set wide the window
Let me drink the day
Edith Wharton
Seasons
The first of May marks the start of Summer in the old Celtic way of dividing the seasons
The heart’s seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?
The soul, too, has its own hours of Winter and Spring.
Myrtle Reed 1874 – 1911, American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist.
Sunday Quote: Be fully present
If we live everything,
life will be faithful to us.
John O’Donohue
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