If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach
The well within
Tag: heart
Soft yet strong
A slight antidote to some of the overly sentimental messages popular on this day:
In Irish, when you talk about trust, there’s a beautiful phrase from West Kerry where you say, “mo sheasamh ort lá na choise tinne” — “You are the place where I stand on the day when my feet are sore.” That is soft and kind language, but it is so robust. That is what we can have with each other.
Padraig O’Tuama, On Being Blog
Embrace destiny
The wise person leans on a pillar that is never shaken,
Travels a road that is never blocked,
is endowed from a resource that is never exhausted,
and learns from a teacher that never dies.
They are successful In whatever they undertake, and arrive wherever they go.
Whatever they do, they embrace destiny and go along without confusion.
Wen-tzu, Taoist, disciple of Lao Tzu
Continue writing
Embrace uncertainty.
Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later
Bob Goff, 1959 – , lawyer and author
A soft gaze
Most of our suffering comes from having a fixed view of how life, or this day, should go…
For things to reveal themselves to us
we need to be ready to abandon our views about them
Thich Nhat Hahn
Earth stuff and star stuff
The practice of cultivating a loving and kind attitude towards ourselves and others, is not a self-improvement technique but an act of quiet daring. As we let down our habitual guard, as we soften and relax, allowing ourselves to loosen the grip of the thoughts and fears that haunt us, we remember the life is here, quietly offering itself to us in this very moment. We remember that we inhabit bodies that come to us from ancestors who endured and overcame much. We remember our deep connection to the earth and also to the stars. We are made of earth stuff and star stuff.
Tracy Cochran
Mindfulbalance 