Look within.
Within is the wellspring of good;
and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Sunday Quote: within
Tag: impermanence
in mud, the lotus blooms
There is a hard truth to be told:
before Spring becomes beautiful
it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck…
But in that muddy mess,
the conditions for rebirth are being created
Parker Palmer
Start over
The first days of a new Spring
There is no expected pace for inner learning.
What we need to learn comes when we need it, no matter how old or young, no matter how many times we have to start over, no matter how many times we have to learn the same lesson.
We fall down as many times as we need to , to learn how to fall and get up. We fall in love as many times as we need to , to learn how to hold and be held. We suffer pain as often as is necessary for us to learn how to break and how to heal. No one really likes this of course, but we deal with our dislike in the same way, again and again, until we learn what we need to know about the humility of acceptance.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Signs of Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
as the uncertain harvest; keep us here
all simply in the springing of the year.
Robert Frost
Sunday Quote: tensed
The greatest peril of misplaced worry
is that in keeping us constantly tensed against an imagined catastrophe,
it prevents us from fully living.
Seneca
another prayer for these times
O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you. I cannot do it alone.
In me it is dark, but with you there is light.
I am lonely, but you do not desert me.
My courage fails me, but with you there is help.
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience.
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor imprisoned and executed by Nazis.
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