As we grow we tend to increasingly live in the future, and what “may” happen.
A baby smiles between fifty and seventy times a day
and a toddler six hundred times, according to research.
I’m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes.
What robs us of it?
Goldie Hawn, 10 Mindful Minutes
I don’t know anything about consciousness.
I just try to teach my students to hear the birds sing.
Shunryu Suzuki.
What you need,
what we all need, is silence,
Stop the noise in your mind,
in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard
Thich Nhat Hahn
What would it be like
to awaken to a day devoted to gratitude
a day of thankfulness for what was
and yet will be?
Stephen Levine
For the new month….
Every moment is a surprise, if we have the eyes to see it.
The more we cultivate awareness,
the more we realize that even the ordinary is extraordinary.
David Steindal-Rast
The Dzogchen tradition likes to use metaphors for non-grasping – effortless – awareness to help us recognize the “vast expanse” of our “natural mind”
Rest loosely,
like a bundle of straw untied.
No tightness, no goal
– just this.
Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje, Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs
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