If you let yourself be blown to and fro
you lose touch with your roots.
If you let restlessness move you
you lose touch with who you are
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 25
Staying rooted
Tag: impermanence
Sunday Quote: Moment by moment
The first of the leaves are beginning to fall…
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,
but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
contentment
Try to live simply.
A simple lifestyle, freely chosen,
is a source of strength
Quaker Faith and Practice: Advices and Queries, 41
a way of peacefulness
Holding onto the world lightly is peacefulness
There is nothing that you need to hold on to
There is nothing that you need to push away
Sutta Nipata 1097
Letting change happen
I settled at Cold Mountain a while ago, already it seems like years and years.
Freely drifting, I wander the woods and streams
And sit there, watching things themselves; I am satisfied.
Not many come this far into the mountains,
White clouds sometimes touch and pass, thin grass does for a mattress,
The blue sky makes a good cover, a stone under my head. I am happy
I’ll let heaven and earth go about their changes.
Han Shan, Cold Mountain, poem 12
Hold firm
No matter how difficult a state of mind you may find yourself in,
if you hold firm,
eventually the floating clouds will vanish
and the withering wind must cease
Dogen
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