Tag: impermanence

Nothing missing

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There is no such thing

as an underdeveloped moment

Trungpa Rinpoche

Be serene

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Be serene in the oneness of things

and erroneous views

will disappear by themselves.

Seng T’san, died 606 AD. Third Zen Patriarch, Hsin Hsin Ming

The journey itself

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We humans have a tendency to lean into the future or to seek something “more exciting” than what is in front of us. The challenge is to be fully awake and fully invested in the completeness of the present moment.

The moon and the sun are eternal travellers.

Even the years wander on.

A lifetime adrift in a boat or old age leading a tired horse into the years,

every day is a journey and the journey itself is home

Matsuo Basho, 17th century Japanese poet, Narrow Road to the Interior.

Sunday Quote: Adventure

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you

Clarissa-Pinkola-Estés

Being alive

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, or stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed. 

Albert Einstein

Unanswered Questions

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Life is so full of mystery, answers are so few, I do not trust them. I prefer unanswered questions. At the end of the answers there is usually a person who enjoys the power of appearing to know.

I have come to like things that are left unfinished. Its the question that shines the light, that seeks. The answer’s often just a dim reflection of the vastness of the question. There are no answers that satisfy. This is a small life and everything comes to nothing at the end. I like that. I like the idea of smallness and the wonder of basic human things.

from the lovely little book, Marc Hamer, A Life in Nature, or how to catch a mole