Tag: impermanence

Happiness is our natural state.

Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

To regain happiness, you don’t have to add anything; you’ve got to drop something.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!

Anthony de Mello sj, Awareness

To be a pilgrim is to notice the way the light changes the color of the hills,

to listen for the stories embedded in the path,

to let the journey rewrite you

Rebecca Solnit, The Blue of Distance

Our sense of incompletion comes not from lacking something, but from the stubborn and relentless act of comparing ourselves to others. The flower doesn’t look at its neighbor and think, I should be taller, or redder, or more like a rose. It just unfolds in the sun, moment by moment, wholly itself.

We, however, are caught in the painful illusion that we must be better than or different from who we are to be worthy of love. But the lesson of the flower is clear: There is no other. There is only this – this moment, this self, this blooming.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Alert to the needs of the journey

those on the path of awareness

like swans, glide on,

leaving behind their former resting places

Dhammapada 91