How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Anne Dilliard
photo: themightyquill
Tag: inspiration
Letting go of the thinking mind
You must descend from
your head into your heart.
At present your thoughts of God
are in your head. And God Himself is,
as it were, outside you, and
so your prayer and other spiritual
exercises remain exterior.
Whilst you are still
in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but
will always be whirling about, like snow
in winter or clouds of mosquitoes in summer.
Saint Theophan the Recluse, (1815–1894) monk of the Russian Orthodox Church
photo alan Murray-Rust
Listening
My grandmother’s eyes say Allah is everywhere, even in death.
When she talks of the orchard and the new olive press,
when she tells the stories of Joha and his foolish wisdoms,
He is her first thought, what she really thinks of is His name.
“Answer, if you hear the words under the words—
otherwise it is just a world with a lot of rough edges,
difficult to get through, and our pockets full of stones.“
Naomi Shihab Nye, The Words Under the Words
Sunday Quote: Allowing
Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.
David Whyte, The House of Belonging
Starting over, new again
The soul, like the moon,
is now, and always new again.
And I have seen the ocean
continuously creating.
Since I scoured my mind
and my body, I too, Lalla,
am new, each moment new.
My teacher told me one thing,
live in the soul.
When that was so,
I began to go naked,
and dance.
Lalla, Kasmiri poet and mystic, 1320 – 1392
Original Kasmiri translated by Coleman Banks
Learning from the Masters
But I always think that the best way
to know God
is to love many things
Vincent Van Gogh
photo anilmahajan19
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