A good journey begins with knowing where we are
and being willing to go somewhere else
Richard Rohr
a new journey
Tag: impermanence
The most wonderful moment
“My dear friend, has the most wonderful moment of your life arrived?“
He wants to know if the most wonderful moment of your life has arrived. It would be a pity if such a moment does not arrive. We may have a tendency to say “It does not seem that it has arrived, this wonderful moment, but I am sure that it will arrive soon, sometime in the future”. That’s our tendency to answer.
But if we keep living like the way we have lived for the past twenty years, it will not arrive in the next twenty years. It might not arrive at all, that moment we call the “most wonderful moment in our lives“.
The Buddha said, you have to make the present moment into the most wonderful moment of your life. And this is possible, Because if you are able to go home to the present moment, to the here and the the now, become fully alive, become fully present, you can touch all the wonders of life within yourself and around you.
Transcribed from a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh
Our small efforts
As I gaze on the icon of Mother and child, I realize that despite the enormous difficulty the world has always been in, Christ as a child was content to be in the world in the arms of one woman, his mother.
God’s action in the world is sufficient while operating in the limited dimensions of one individual, here shown contented in the arms of his mother.
Paul Quenon, Matter of the Heart, A Monk’s Journal, – a lovely profound book of reflections.
Following the star
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking,
it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Serene
Before the universe was born.
there was something formless and perfect
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the ten thousand things.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 25
Sunday Quote: The secret
Those who are willing to be vulnerable
move among mysteries
Theodore Roethke, American Poet, Straw for the Fire
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