If you don’t like something, change it.
If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
Tag: Joy
Sunday Quote: Awareness
Very foggy here in Ireland this morning. Autumn starts early – a “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness“
It is more about seeing the moments of joy that are already there rather than having to work hard at creating them.
We are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
William Blake
Finding ourselves as we journey
Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens
so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
first, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.
David Whyte, The Journey
Finding moments of joy
Life will bring you pain all by itself.
Your responsibility is to create joy
Milton Erikson, American Psychologist,
Fields that nourish the soul
A lot of our weekday work is centered on our achievements and that can become the narrow focus of our lives. But it is the heart that gives life and what nourishes us in the deepest sense. So our busy lives need to be interrupted by times when we revisit the heart and simply walk in wider fields.
Be kind
to your sleeping heart.
Take it out
into the vast fields
of Light
And let it
breathe.
Hafiz
Sunday Quote: What keeps us going
“Grace is everywhere” were the final words of the priest in Bernanos’ book Journal d’un Curé de Campagne. Some weekends we see it easily in nature. Other times in the presence of a friend:
It is light that matters,
The light of understanding.
Who has ever reached it
Who has not met the furies again and again?
Who has reached it without
Those sudden acts of grace?
May Sarton, The Angels and the Furies
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