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Our loving thoughts

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Let all peoples be happy, weak or strong, of high, middle, low estate, small or great, visible or invisible, near or far away, alive or still to be born. May they all be entirely happy. Let nobody lie to anybody or despise any single being anywhere. May no one wish harm to any single creature out of anger or hatred. Let us cherish all creatures as a mother her only child. May our loving thoughts fill the whole world above, below, across without limit of boundless goodwill toward the whole world, unrestricted, free of hatred and enmity.

Early Buddhist aspiration, quoted by Karen Armstrong in her lecture Faith after Sept 11

Depth

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Real wisdom, tested over time, is different from the quick-fix fads that are fashionable today

Be careful.

Open your life
Only to the wind that has touched distance.

Natan Zach,1930 – 2020, Israeli poet, Be Careful

Start again

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On holidays. Travel allows us see life with new eyes.

I was so proud not to feel my heart.
Waking means being angry.

This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.

Rome is also built on ruins.

Eliza Griswold, 1973 – , American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and poet, Ruins

Sunday Quote: Remind yourself

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 Sometimes I go about in pity for myself,

and all the while,

a great wind carries me across the sky

Ojibwe Tribe saying.  

Hello to here

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It has taken years to continue to live into the truth that if I believe we are from God and for God, then we are from Goodness and for Goodness. To greet sorrow today does not mean that sorrow will be there tomorrow. Happiness comes too, and grief, and tiredness, disappointment, surprise and energy. Chaos and fulfilment will be named as well as delight and despair. This is the truth of being here, wherever here is today. It may not be permanent but it is here. I will probably leave here, and I will probably return. To deny here is to harrow the heart. Hello to here.

Pádraig Ó Tuama, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

Up hills and down valleys

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Jung [said]..: “A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not yet discovered its meaning.” Notice that he does not rule out suffering, for suffering, the medieval adage had it, “is the fastest horse to completion.”

The clear implication of Jung’s position is that working through one’s way to meaning – that is, to an enlarged view of ones dilemma and perhaps to an enlarged view of one’s own summons – can lead one through the valley of the shadow.

James Hollis, Living an Examined Life: Wisdom For the Second Half of the Journey.

(The interesting medieval idea he refers to is from Meister Eckhart: The quickest horse that carries you to perfection is suffering)