Tag: impermanence

This day – do not waste the invitations

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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

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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

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Mind always goes ahead or lags behind.

Remain with the moment.

Osho

 

On a journey

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A new month. We think we know where we are going.

Surely it is better to wait and see, moment by moment. Who knows where we will end up?

Whales follow
the whale-roads.
Geese, roads of magnetized air.

Yet how often
the heart
that set out for Peru
arrives in China,

Steering hard.
consulting the charts
the whole journey.

Jane Hirshfield, China

 

The daily challenge

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Here, Ajahn Sucitto, who gave a talk last evening in Geneva, sums up the whole of practice in an insightful way: Getting to know the mind, and the unskilful habits which lead to suffering:

We are all in this together

— wanting peace and harmony – but disappointing and irritating each other nonetheless.

‘It shouldn’t be this way, there shouldn’t be any suffering.’

But then isn’t understanding and letting go of suffering what it’s all about.

What else are we here for?

Ajahn Sucitto, Parami

Sunday Quote: Just stay in the moment

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Things arise – just let them come;
Things disappear –  just let them go.
Create but do not possess
Act but don’t expect.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching