See and realize
that this world
is not permanent.
Neither late nor early flowers
will remain.
Ryokan
Impermanent
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Knowing the seasons
The first day of a new season in the old Celtic calendar
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we humans know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Sunday Quote: Joyous
We have the good fortune to be born as human beings..
Let us be joyous.
Dogen
Don’t identify with passing clouds
If there is no regarding of phenomena as “mine”
Then the self who suffers
is not constructed
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Thoughts
Each thought creates according to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893 – 1952
Not a straight line
The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
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