When the big things feel out of control,
focus on what you love right under your nose.
The Horse in Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
per Laura V…
How to keep going
Tag: heart
Sunday Quote: Fresh
It’s morning again…and the world’s drying off with fresh-laundered sunshine.
Life’s face is never the same
though we may look at it for all eternity.
Kolbein Falkeid, Norwegian poet, 1933 –
Air
All you can do for another person
is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
Sunday Quote: Content
There is great happiness in not wanting,
in not being something,
in not going somewhere.
Jiddu Krisnamurti
In small things
We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.
Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
No grasping or resistance
Ajahn Buddhadasa, a colleague of Ajahn Chah, made a point of directing his students to look for nirvana in the simplest ways, in everyday moments. “Nirvana,” he would say, “is the coolness of letting go, the inherent delight of experience when there is no grasping or resistance to life. It is always available. Anyone can see that if grasping and aversion were with us day and night without ceasing, who could ever stand them? Instead we survive because there are natural periods of coolness, of wholeness and ease…In fact, they last longer than the fires of our grasping and fear. It is this that sustains us. We have periods of rest making us refreshed and well. Why don’t we feel thankful for this everyday nirvana?”
Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart, Buddhist Psychology for the West.
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