Learn the alchemy which true human beings know:
The moment you accept the troubles you have been given
the door will open.
Rumi
Tag: impermanence
Sometimes an empty space is the best response
Sometimes peoples words and actions can agitate and upset us.
We wish to react or maybe get fearful and withdraw.
However, sometimes doing nothing, not reacting or rushing to a definitive judgment, can be the wisest course.
Hold a space. Emptiness and form. Non-doing and doing.
Thirty spokes meet in the hub.
But its where the wheel isn’t
is where it’s useful.
Hollowed out, the clay makes a pot.
Where the clay is not
is where it’s useful.
Cut doors and windows to make a room.
Where the room is not,
there is room for you.
So something is shaped into what is;
but its usefulness comes from what is not.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Just flow with it
When effort is needed, effort will appear.
When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself.
You need not push life about.
Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment,
which is the dying now to the now.
For living is dying.
Without death life cannot be.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 – 1981
This day – do not waste the invitations
We often rush through a day – preoccupied with the practical things that need to get done – that we do not have time to celebrate:
A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go, to take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward the territories of spirit
Where you will discover more of your hidden life,
And the urgencies that deserve to claim you
May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.
John O Donohue, For the Traveler
A spirit of adventure
Not a bad attitude to have as we start the day, seeing moments – even difficult ones – as “adventures” .
Wish that your journey be a long one,
full of adventures, full of knowing.
(Vα εύχεσαι να είναι μακρύς ο δρόμος, γεμάτος περιπέτειες, γεμάτος γνώσεις)
Cavafy’s advice to Odysseus before he set out on his voyage back to Ithaca
Step by step
Mind always goes ahead or lags behind.
Remain with the moment.
Osho
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