We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows
Jack Gilbert, American Poet, 1925 – 2012
Sunday Quote: Dismantle
Tag: impermanence
The real life within
You know that the seed is inside the chestnut tree and inside the seed there are blossoms of the tree and the chestnuts and the shade. So inside the human body there is the seed, and inside the seed there is the human body again
Thinkers, listen…. tell me what you know of that which is not inside the soul: Take a jug of water and set it down on the water – now it has water inside and water outside. We shouldn’t give it a name, in case silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth: Listen to the secret sound, the real sound which is inside you. The One nobody talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the One who has made it all.
Kabir
Predicament
Two quotes from Leonard Cohen on the anniversary of his death
One idea on my new record is that the human predicament has no solution. We were tossed out of the garden; this isn’t paradise. And to look for perfect solutions is a very difficult burden to bear. That’s my theme: It’s a mess — thank God
[“The Traitor”] was about the feeling that we have of betraying some mission that we were mandated to fulfill, and being unable to fulfill it. And then coming to understand that the real mandate was not to fulfill it, and that the deeper courage was to stand guiltless in the predicament in which you found yourself.
Simplify
I want to learn how to walk down the ladder gracefully.
I have this image – I would like to get smaller and smaller in a relevant way.
Carly Simon, on what she learned from dealing with cancer and other life setbacks, quoted in Sara Davidson, The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Nothing is fixed
We frequently identify quite closely with our moods…never the best idea on a Monday morning….
In a world where nothing is as fixed as it seems,
it comes as a great relief to discover that even the ego is impermanent
Mark Epstein, Advice not Given: A Guide to Getting over Yourself
Sunday Quote: No need to want more
The beauty of a mountain is that it is so much like a mountain, and of water that it is so much like water
Zen saying
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