We have natural wakefulness, but we also have a lot of confusion.
The point is that the confusion is temporary and the basic nature is fundamental.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
The difference
Tag: impermanence
we keep getting caught
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum
that can easily drag you along with it.
Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
From letting go
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness,
be it material or psychological.
Happiness comes from letting go
Mark Epstein
renewable
You are impermanent and renewable, like your breath, like your steps. You are not something permanent experiencing something impermanent. You are something impermanent experiencing something impermanent.
If happiness can be renewed, so can you, because you in the next moment is a renewal of you in this moment. It’s wonderful to know that happiness lasts only as long as one in-breath or one step, because we know we can renew our happiness in another breath or another step.
Thich Nhat Hahn, The Art of Power
Sunday Quote: Oneness
Close your eyes. Find green mountains and pure water within your heart. Silently drinking, feel these become part of you.
When you hold the green tea in the bowl in your hands
The self and the natural world cease to be separate.
Sen Genshitsu, 1923 – 2025, \Grand master of the Urasenke tea tradition
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the hearts of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe.
Black Elk Speaks , recorded early 20th Century
As the leaves return
The Spring Equinox: transformation is often quiet, patient, and without spectacle
Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them.
But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.
Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
Hermann Hesse, Trees, Reflections and Poems
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