Tag: Ireland

Sunday Quote: Changing our mindset

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Nature does not hurry,

yet everything is accomplished.

 Lao Tzu

Moments are all we have

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How do we cultivate the conditions

for joy to expand?

We train in staying present.

Pema Chodron

photo of Spring wildflowers at Lyrath House, Kilkenny

Always there

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Out here it’s impossible to be lonely.
The land walking beside you is your oldest friend,
pleasantly silent, like already you’ve told the best stories
and each of you knows how much the other made up.

Naomi Shihab Nye, At the Seven Mile Ranch, Comstock, Texas

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig 

  Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

Moments

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There is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day

Not holding on

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We can sometimes make our experiences very solid and permanent. This gives them more importance and increases our tendency to become identified with their energy, and get stuck in the story, causing more suffering in this way.

Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did not grow into a noontime. There was never a noon that did not fall into afternoon. There was never an afternoon that did not fade toward evening. There never was a day yet that did not get buried in the graveyard of the night.

In this way transience makes a ghost out of everything that happens to us.

John O’Donohue, Anam Cara

Celebrating just as it is

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We are having a strange mix of weathers this year in Ireland. Daffodils already in bloom, buds on the trees, followed by snow and sleet yesterday, and having to avoid large puddles when getting out of the car.  Good practice in celebrating little moments of beauty amid everyday changes

In the scenery of spring,
we can’t say one thing is better, the other worse;

The flowering branches are
of themselves, some are short, some others long.

Ryōkan, 1758 – 1831

photo light snow on Lough Dan in Wicklow by bea&txm