We spend much of our time in a cage created by our own fear of discomfort.
Pema Chödrön
Sunday Quote: Cage
Tag: impermanence
How to live life
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you.
Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
Eckhart Tolle, A new Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose
Staying with the unknown
Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t – and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Don’t be your own obstacle
If you free yourself from the comparing and jealous mind, your creativity opens up endlessly. Just as water springs from a fountain, creativity springs from every moment. You must not be your own obstacle. You must not be owned by the environment you are in. You must own the environment, the phenomenal world around you. You must be able to freely move in and out of your mind. This is being free. That is my belief.
Jeong Kwan, Buddhist nun and chef of Korean cuisine
Begin
To know what you’re going to draw,
you have to begin drawing.
Picasso
Wings will be given
You are uneasy riding the body?
Dismount. Travel lighter. Wings will be given.
Be clear like a mirror, reflecting nothing.
Be clean of pictures and the worry that comes with images.
Gaze into what is not ashamed or afraid of any truth.
Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them.
Be pure emptiness.
What is inside that? you ask. Silence is all I can say.
Lovers have some secrets That they keep.
Rumi
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