Tag: heart

Sunday Quote: Look

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Soil

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Inside each of us, there’s continual autumn.
Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water…..
There’s a necessary dying,
and then Jesus is breathing again.
Very little grows on jagged rock.
Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers
will come up where you are.
You’ve been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.

Rumi, A Necessary Autumn inside Each

Sunday Quote: Wilderness

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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land

Annie Dilliard

Sunday Quote: Longing

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Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

Li-Young Lee, LV

Seeing with the heart

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In Shakespeare’s King Lear Act IV, the King asks Gloucester how he was so good at seeing “how this world goes?” And Gloucester, who was blind, answers:

“I see it feelingly.”

On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye

Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

Demented gardeners

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[Even some] lovely people feel that their real identity is working on themselves, and some work on themselves with such harshness. Like a demented gardener who won’t let the soil settle for anything to grow, they keep raking, tearing away the nurturing clay from their own heart, then they’re surprised that they feel so empty and vacant. Self-compassion is paramount. When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do.

John O’Donoghue, Anam Chara