Sunday quote: Perspective

You are floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever.

If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. 

Michael Singer,  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Applying the lessons of autumn

 

We all carry these interior lists and shoulds…

Dropping all we carry – all our preconceptions, our interior lists of the ways we’ve failed and the ways we’ve been wronged, all the secret burdens we work at maintaining – dropping all regret and expectations lets our mentality die. Dropping all we have constructed as imperative allows us to be born again into the simplicity of spirit that arises from unencumbered being

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

 

Sunday Quote: Being comfortable with change

Apprentice yourself to the curve of your own disappearance

David Whyte

Billions of ways

When we are afraid, the fear-body tends to contract. The word anxiety has its roots in the Latin word ‘angere’ meaning to choke, or become tight, constricted, trapped and limited. It is good to breathe into this body sense and to maintain an awareness of spaciousness and of choice. To lift our eyes up to the hills.

Listen my love, illumination is eternal

Now is always evolving.

As there are billions of stars

There are billions of steps.

As there are billions of souls

There are billions of ways to grow. 

Rumi

Sunday Quote: Meaning

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveller.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We just don’t know

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions?

For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you

Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet