I find hope in the darkest of days
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
The Dalai Lama
Sunday Quote: trust
Tag: impermanence
self-care
To keep on filling
is not as good as stopping.
Oversharpen a blade,
and the edge will soon lose its keenness.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to lasting calm.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 9
new ways
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living.
We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
In the second half of life, you are not making choices as much as you are being guided, taught, and led.
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
How we relate
The Buddha’s first insight was that life is fundamentally unsatisfactory – not because life is flawed,
but because we relate to it in ways that inevitably lead to suffering.
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Getting stuck in things
We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings which are., in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent.
In so doing, we define ourselves by our moods and by our thoughts
We do not just let ourselves be happy or sad
For instance, we must be a happy person or a sad one
This is the chronic tendency of the ignorant or deluded mind, to make “things” out of that which is no thing
Mark Epstein
Sunday Quote: Stand in the rain
Maybe the meaning of life is just to see the beauty in the ordinary.
To love the things that don’t last, because nothing does.
To stand in the rain and feel it.
To be alive in the world.
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
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