Usually we think that if we have a lot of things, we will be happy.
But actually, when we do not want anything, we are truly happy.
Shunyru Suzuki Roshi, Not Always So
not by accumulation
Tag: impermanence
The way we travel
Human beings do not find their essence through fulfillment or eventual arrival,
but by staying close to the way they like to travel,
to the way they hold the conversation between the ground on which they stand and the horizon to which they go.
We are, in effect, always close to the ultimate secret:
that we are more real in our simple wish to find a way than any destination we could reach
David Whyte, Consolations
Life is too short
My motto for this week
Stop giving your precious energy
to things that make you feel bad.
Louise Hay
When you feel stuck
Ishi no ue ni mo sannen (石の上にも三年) Well known Japanese Proverb
Literal meaning: “Three years on a stone.”
Its wisdom is deceptively simple: patience transforms even the toughest challenges. Sit on a cold stone long enough, and eventually it will grow warm. Similarly, sometimes the breakthrough occurs not through intensity but through continuity.
Trust
You know that the flower bends
when the wind wants it to,
and you must become like that –
that is, filled with deep trust
Rilke, Early Journals
Come and Go
Shifting the nervous system from fusion to observation.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal.
They are conditions of the human mind.
They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
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