Tag: Joy

The World is always partly Veiled

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Komorebi (木漏れ日) is a beautiful Japanese word for the light filtering through trees – everchanging – reminding us of the fleeting uniqueness of each moment.

Understanding this leads to a contentment with the Universe and with oneself.

Not a bad philosophy for a New Year…

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

Mary Oliver, When I am Among the Trees

What am I looking for?

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The symbol of the heart has often been used to express love…… Some have questioned whether this symbol is still meaningful today. Yet living as we do in an age of superficiality, rushing frenetically from one thing to another without really knowing why, and ending up as insatiable consumers and slaves to the mechanisms of a market unconcerned about the deeper meaning of our lives, all of us need to rediscover the importance of the heart

Instead of running after superficial satisfactions and playing a role for the benefit of others, we would do better to think about the really important questions in life. Who am I, really? What am I looking for? What direction do I want to give to my life, my decisions and my actions? Why and for what purpose am I in this world? How do I want to look back on my life once it ends? What meaning do I want to give to all my experiences? …All these questions lead us back to the heart.

Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos

Sunday Quote: dancing

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When I am grateful,

I am neither rushing nor slouching through my day-

I’m dancing.

David Steindl Rast

Sunday Quote: trust

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I find hope in the darkest of days

and focus in the brightest.

I do not judge the universe.

The Dalai Lama

A simple practice

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As we grow we tend to increasingly live in the future, and what “may” happen.

A baby smiles between fifty and seventy times a day

and a toddler six hundred times, according to research.

I’m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes.

What robs us of it?

Goldie Hawn, 10 Mindful Minutes

Acceptance and openness

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When you combine acceptance with responsibility and defenselessness, your work becomes an expression of your higher purpose.

You stop wasting energy resisting office politics, stressing over deadlines, or obsessing over outcomes.

Instead, you focus on creative solutions, trusting that the universe will support your intentions when you act in alignment with truth and compassion.

Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success