Tag: Joy

Sunday Quote: Still

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Wait in the stillness, until you get what you came for.

Byron Katie

Wonderful things

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Each day we take a lot of things for granted…

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds, with innumerable wonderful features.

However, we should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this,

but even what is right here,

even a single drop of water.

Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist monk, founder of the Soto school of Zen.

Enough

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If you have one pot

And can make your tea in it

That will do quite well.

How much he is missing

who must have a lot of things.

Sen no  Rikyu, 1522 – 1591, Japanese tea master

an antidote to the rhetoric of growth

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A Bank Holiday in Ireland; wise words

But beyond self-care and the ability to (really) listen, the practice of doing nothing has something broader to offer us: an antidote to the rhetoric of growth.

In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative.

Jenny Odell, How to do Nothing

How we live our moments

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Like it or not,

this moment is all we really have ot work with

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sunday Quote: Wholeness

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Non est vivere, sed valere vita est

Life is not just a matter of being alive, but living well

Martial, Roman Poet, c 40 – 102 AD, Epigrams Book VI, 70:15)