Ishi no ue ni mo sannen (石の上にも三年) Well known Japanese Proverb
Literal meaning: “Three years on a stone.”
Its wisdom is deceptively simple: patience transforms even the toughest challenges. Sit on a cold stone long enough, and eventually it will grow warm. Similarly, sometimes the breakthrough occurs not through intensity but through continuity.
You know that the flower bends
when the wind wants it to,
and you must become like that –
that is, filled with deep trust
Rilke, Early Journals
Shifting the nervous system from fusion to observation.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal.
They are conditions of the human mind.
They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
We usually dont look,
we overlook
Alan Watts
In Japan, there is an art to fixing broken pottery called kintsugi. The cracks are mended with a resin painted gold. The idea is that what is broken becomes more beautiful for having been broken.
In this way, the Japanese honor the broken rather than hiding it.
So often, we hide our wounds, our scars, our cracks. But what if they are the very openings through which we grow?
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
The unsatisfactory nature of life does not mean we are getting it wrong. Our experience is characterized by a constant restless quality :
At its core, dukkha is the tension of resisting life as it is.
Psychologically, it manifests as anxiety, self-judgment, and the relentless pursuit of ‘somewhere else’ to be happy.
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
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