The intelligent way of working with emotions is to try to relate to their basic substance. The basic “isness” quality of the emotions, the fundamental nature of the emotions, is just energy. And if one is able to relate with the energy, then the energies have no conflict with you. They become a natural process.
Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
Having no destination, I am never lost.
Ikkyuu, 1394-1481, Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Can’t just “let it go”?
That’s because emotions are not like rocks we can drop and throw.
They are more like drops of water that need to run through us.
So don’t let it go
Let it flow
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
Sometimes, to achieve something, it is best if we step back or let go, as the Daoist-sounding great Zen Master reminds us
When you leave the way to the way,
you attain the way.
Dogen, Bodaisatta-Shishobo, The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance, 1234
To live without roads
seemed one way not to get lost.
Naomi Shihab Nye
What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until it all ends.
Mary Oliver What Can I Say [extract]
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