The fool, with all his other faults, has this one also,
he is always getting ready to live.
Seneca
Time to start living
Tag: impermanence
Sunday Quote: When
The beginning is always today
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797 English writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights
Cycles
Instead of seeing time as a straight line,
if we see life as a series of cycles of growth, maturation, and death followed by rebirth,
we can better understand why endings are necessary for new beginnings.
Jeremy Hunter, mindfulness teacher, founder Executive Mind Leadership Institute
Underfoot
Truth exists as much in your teacup as it does in your temples and churches. Truth is as present in shopping for your groceries as it is in chanting to God.
To think of truth only in spiritual or religious terms is to miss the whole of it, for in doing so you create the boundaries and divisions that are the very antithesis of truth. Truth is an immeasurable reality not at all separate from your own being. For in the revelation of truth, all beings rest within your being.
Put more simply, if you cannot find it now underfoot, I’m afraid that you have missed it entirely.
Adyashanti
A sureness in you
Your identity is not equivalent to your biography.
There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there’s still a sureness in you, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you.
And I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner kind of sanctuary.
John O’Donohue, The Inner Landscape of Beauty
The same place
We understand that the nature of the mind is to wander. In this wandering everything that is encountered is a teaching., a pointing to a life that can be vividly lived. And every path that we wander leads to the same place “Here”.
The realization of the continual return to this moment, this time, this place is liberating. A sense of wonder arises, of not-knowing, and deeply trusting this feeling of simple presence.
Melissa Myozen Blacker in Living Mindfully: 52 weekly quotes and Mindfulness practices
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