Consciously or unconsciously,
we avoid facing things as they are in themselves
and so we want God to open for us a door which is beyond…
(But) to find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves.
Krishnamurti
Tag: impermanence
Walking from the inside out
The key to life is how we relate to its unfolding, minute by minute. In one sense, we do not have to get anywhere and anyway, even if we think we do, there is no GPS, no pre-determined maps, no magical tarot cards which give us the final, clear answers to its mysteries. We move either by fear or by trusting that all is fundamentally well. If the latter, we move the way joy and confidence makes us move, building our life from the inside out.
Keep walking, though there is no place to get to
Don’t try to see through the distances
That’s not for human beings.
Move within
But don’t move the way fear makes you move.
Rumi
Living life fully
Today is Valentines day, normally celebrated with a special meal and even chocolates. It is also Ash Wednesday in the Christian tradition, a day of fasting, the start of Lent – a season of simplification. They seem quite opposed as celebrations.
However, both are reminders that our lives are short, and that we should live them with passion and to the fullest, appreciating, and celebrating fully, beauty as it appears in each day .
In the school of mind
you learn a lot,
And become a true scholar for many to look up to.
In the school of love
you become a child
to learn again
Abu-Said Abil-Kheir, Sufi Poet, 967 – 1049
Why we get anxious
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future,
but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil Gibran
Sunday Quote: Stop waiting
Dance in the body you have.
Agnes de Mille, 1905 – 1993, American dancer and choreographer.
Everything is a mess, but…
All mystics . . . no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion – are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare
Anthony De Mello, Awareness
