Life was unfolding in spite of me, not because of me. The more I leaned back and trusted, the more life took care of itself.
The key is to stop fighting. Lean back , let go and let life flow through you.
When you do, you will see that life knows what it’s doing
Michael Singer, The Surrender Experiment
Same understanding as yesterday’s quote, but from the Western tradition
I have spoken at times of a light in the deepest self,
a light that is uncreated and uncreatable,
and to the extent that we can turn away from created things, we shall find our unity and blessing in that little spark,
which neither space nor time touches.
Meister Eckhart
A bank holiday in Ireland to mark the start of Spring. Helpful in work-life balance
Peace is understood in the Christian tradition as tranquillitas ordinis, the quietness of order, the calm that comes with harmony.
And order is arranging things so that each gives to the other its proper place. Even God must do this. In the Jewish tradition it is said that, in order to create the world, God had to step back
David Steindl-Rast, osb., Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
Even the long-beloved
was once an unrecognized stranger.
Just so, the chipped lip of a blue-glazed cup,
blown field of a yellow curtain,
might also,
flooding and falling,
ruin your heart.
A table painted with roses.
An empty clothesline.
Each time,
the found world surprises –
that is its nature.
And then
what is said by all lovers:
“What fools we were, not to have seen.”
Jane Hirshfield, Meeting the Light Completely
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die
we have the spark that starts the fire.
Rumi
Paraphrasing the words of Goethe’s Faust, “two selves dwell within our breast.”
One part of us is meant to live and function in the world we see around us — to eat, sleep, and produce our children, to answer the challenges of the natural and social world: in the words of Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes, to be born and die, to kill and to heal, to build and destroy, to weep and to laugh, get and lose, keep and cast away. This is human life “under the sun,” the world that we see and know and call real.
But God, the “something,” is above the sun, above all that our eyes can see and our mind can name, and there is a higher part of ourselves that senses that and calls to us.
We are two-natured beings. Such is the ancient teaching.
Jacob Needleman, 1934 – 2022, American Philosopher, Money and the Meaning of Life
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