Tag: impermanence

Spring and all its flowers now
joyously break their vow of silence.
It is time for
celebration, not for
lying low.

Hafiz

We don’t have to have any qualifications to watch our breath. We do not even need to be particularly intelligent — all we have to do is to be content with, and aware of, one inhalation and exhalation. 

Wisdom does not come from studying great theories and philosophies, but from observing the ordinary.

Ajahn Sumedho

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, ‘Have faith and take your troubles to God.’

Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help – only yourself.

Martin Buber, philosopher, 1978 – 1965

I would like to live
Like a river flows.
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.

John O Donohue, Irish poet and author, Fluent 

Might try this for a while…

Let life live you for a while

instead of trying to make yourself live life

Alan Watts

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.

Osho