All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Sunday Quote: Every Instant
Tag: impermanence
Shelter and Blessings
We need to return to the solitude within, to find again the dream that lies at the hearth of the soul. We need to feel the dream with the wonder of a child approaching a threshold of discovery. The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. The divine has such passionate creativity and instinct for the fully inhabited life.
John O’Donoghue
Don’t get in the way
We have been given bad advice about the ego.
We know we need it
but we think we are it.
Mark Epstein, Advice not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Miracles
Only a total dance, an authentic love, a whole-hearted joy, may perhaps create some miracles around you.
But you will not be the one who has done them; you will not be the one who can brag about them.
They will happen only when you are not.
Osho
Let the Universe handle it
When someone says or does something that I find either obnoxious or unattractive – anything that my ego uses to separate myself from others – I’ll just soften my eyes and fall back into that “something else.” That something else is what does the transforming – it is the grace that makes it work. My only effort is to be aware enough to realize what’s happening. The moment of realizing is actually, in itself, a form of healing. The moment I see that and am willing to fall back into grace, then there’s a possibility for something different to happen within myself. Instead of judging an experience – which makes more separation- I can fall back into letting the universe handle it. This is a gift that’s quite freeing.
Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Living: Recognize It, Trust It, Abide in It
Time for what is essential
Not just writers, but politicians, journalists and most of modern distracted society…
Most writers waste people’s time with too many words. I’m trying to reduce everything down to the minimum.
My last work will be a blank piece of paper.
Samuel Beckett
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