In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.
Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,
and they’re still beautiful
Alice Walker
Each day
Tag: heart
Defended
Grace is the word for what it takes to lay down your armour.
To stop protecting yourself long enough to be touched by something beyond your own strategies
Padraig O’Tuama, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
A simple practice
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
just listen
I don’t know anything about consciousness.
I just try to teach my students to hear the birds sing.
Shunryu Suzuki.
a real break
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
devoted to gratitude
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
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