Tag: impermanence

A long weekend in Ireland

I live by the truth that “No” is a complete sentence.

I rest as a spiritual act.

Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

The problem with life is that it flows and is not graspable.

The beauty of life is that it runs and does not stop.

Joan Chittister, There is a Season

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language.

But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

– Maya Angelou

But listen to me

For one moment quit being sad.

Hear blessings

dropping their blossoms

around you

Rumi

I love the word pause. . . .

Such a time represents a kind of time that is vanishing: a floating time, completely free of usefulness, suspended between wakefulness and sleep.

This is the time zone of wonder,

when we fall out of the habitual, the taken-for-granted, and are startled by what is.

Noelle Oxenhandler.

It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught.

Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation.

Our discomfort arises from all of our effort to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. 

Pema Chödrön