We do not turn away from difficulties or or injustice, but neither do we surrender to despair. If we can have a heart wide enough to hold both, the ordinary becomes sacred.
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart
and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun.
Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
What we need to know is already known within.
Sometimes life circumstances require [that] a therapist…embodies the permission-granting authority figure, the simulacrum of an empowering parent, but even that does not always work.
Sooner or later, a person has to understand and revisit the basics: we are accountable for the life we have lived or not lived; we are summoned to choice, courage and perseverance in living this life. From that recognition, the necessity of permission becomes more than obvious; it becomes the vital oxygen we must breathe or we choke to death on the fumes of the unlived life
James Hollis, Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second half of the Journey
Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! ……
We must become that moment….…
forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
Paul Cézanne
Nothing has ever been said about God
that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Thomas Merton
Mystery is the place where meaning hasn’t settled yet.
And that’s not a bad place to be
Pádraig O’Tuama, Poetry Unhindered newsletter
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.
Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching, 13
