Observe

So easy this week in Ireland, with beautiful Indian Summer days bathing the fields in light

Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent.

Rumi

Another moment, another chance

 I know now, 
after fifty years, 
that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, 
leaving/returning, never stops.
The whole of life is about another chance

Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy when you Could Be Normal?

Being as is

The wise person man, perceiving wealth and craving,
Knows them to be empty illusion;

Food and clothes sustain our body and life;

But I advise you to learn

Being as is.

When it’s time,  I leave my hermitage and go,

And there’s nothing to be left behind

Layman Pang, 740 – 808, Chinese Chan layman

Sunday Quote: Stillness

To meet everyone and everything through stillness instead of mental noise

is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.

Eckhart Tolle

Distraction

Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

Wendell Berry, How to Be a Poet

Sunday Quote: Seasick

If you don’t become the ocean,

you’ll be seasick every day

Leonard Cohen