Presence is when you’re no longer waiting for the next moment,
believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.
Eckhart Tolle,
Presence
Tag: impermanence
Sunday quote: Light persists
I perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying,
there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless,
that holds all together, that creates,dissolves and recreates…
for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists,in the midst of untruth, truth persists,
in the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
The difference
We have natural wakefulness, but we also have a lot of confusion.
The point is that the confusion is temporary and the basic nature is fundamental.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
we keep getting caught
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum
that can easily drag you along with it.
Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
From letting go
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness,
be it material or psychological.
Happiness comes from letting go
Mark Epstein
renewable
You are impermanent and renewable, like your breath, like your steps. You are not something permanent experiencing something impermanent. You are something impermanent experiencing something impermanent.
If happiness can be renewed, so can you, because you in the next moment is a renewal of you in this moment. It’s wonderful to know that happiness lasts only as long as one in-breath or one step, because we know we can renew our happiness in another breath or another step.
Thich Nhat Hahn, The Art of Power
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