Tag: impermanence

A Deep dream

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I’ve spent many years learning
how to fix life, only to discover
at the end of the day
that life is not broken

There is a hidden seed of greater wholeness
in everyone and everything.
We serve life best
when we water it
and befriend it.
When we listen before we act.

In befriending life,
we do not make things happen
according to our own design.
We uncover something that is already happening
in us and around us and
create conditions that enable it.

Everything is moving toward its place of wholeness
always struggling against the odds.

Everything has a deep dream of itself and its fulfillment.

Rachel Naomi Remen, Everything has a Deep Dream

(redone as a poem by Meg Wheatley).

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When we get caught up in the drama

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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Sharon Salzberg

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Waiting

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Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is here now, this very moment — in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart – whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries

Osho

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Dignity

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You may not control all events that happen to you

but you can decide not to be reduced by them

Maya Angelou

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Sunday Quote: Movement

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river

The deepest words of the wise…teach us…

the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows

or the sound of the water when it is flowing

Antonio Marchado

photo of the Allondon river near Crozet, France.

Substance and weight

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How often do our thoughts condition reactions in the mind, as if the thought itself had substance? Yet the thought of a friend is not the friend; it is a thought. How many life scenarios have we created, directed and starred in  and,  for those moments, taken to be the experience itself? We also may get carried away by the intense energy of our emotions, swept up in a typhoon of the mind and body. To be lost in emotions is not to be mindful of their energy; and when there is a strong identified involvement with them, there is no space in the mind for seeing clearly what is happening.

Joseph Goldstein, in Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

photo autumn wind by jojo