We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Tag: Joy
Sunday Quote: our inner resource
May we all grow in grace and peace,
and not neglect the silence that is printed
in the centre of our being.
It will not fail us.
Thomas Merton
Step through again and again
How do we work with this tendency to block and to freeze and to refuse to take another step toward the unknown? If our edge is like a huge stone wall with a door in it, how do we learn to open the door and step through it again and again, so that life becomes a process of growing up, becoming more and more fearless and flexible, more and more able to play like a raven in the wind?
The wilder the weather is, the more the ravens love it. They have the time of their lives in the winter, when the wind gets much stronger and there’s lots of ice and snow. They challenge the wind. They get up on the tops of the trees and hold on with their claws and then they grab on with their beaks as well. At some point they just let go into the wind and let it blow them away. They have had to develop a zest for challenge and for life.
Pema Chodron
photo Ingrid Taylar
Not dependent on everything going right
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
David Steindal Rast, born 1926, Catholic monk, founder of A Network for Grateful Living
photo yumi kimura
Cheerfulness
A post for the made-up “Blue Monday”, the day in the year, they tell us, we are most likely to feel gloomy.
Perhaps the best advice for our physical and mental health this week, as we bring our inner self to work with whatever outward situation we find ourselves in…. and not from a modern self-help book.
A cheerful heart is good medicine
Proverbs 17:22
photo david shankbone
The gentler way of nature
The first week back to work over. Nature has a gentler pace than the one imposed by our minds and seems to have different phases – growth, slowing down, covering over and rest. Thus, despite all the clamour to change we hear in these first weeks, we can choose to have some natural rest and a time of quiet, not always striving – allowing the different parts of our lives to just be .
You begin to see that there are seasons in your life, in the same way as there as seasons in nature. There are times to cultivate, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally there are those times that are cold and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.
Chogram Trungpa Rinpoche, How to Rule
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