If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Krishnamurti
Sunday Quote: Allowing
Tag: impermanence
become quiet
Another Atlantic storm passed over the country overnight, with strong winds and heavy rain. After the winds the stirring becomes quiet.
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me, like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
Then what is afraid of me comes
and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves it.
It sings, and I hear its song.
Wendell Berry
Practice contentment
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more.
Your desire can never be satisfied.
But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself “Oh Yes, I already have everything I need”
The Dalai Lama
Solid in unsettling times
Let our meditation be like the earth,
for then satisfying and unsatisfying contacts with the world through the senses
will not invade the mind.
The Buddha
The Christmas rush
Our minds are like crows.
They pick up everything that glitters,
no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them
Thomas Merton
Sunday Quote: living fully
Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books every day.
The person that puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.
Seneca, Moral Letters, 101, 7b – 8a
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