Tag: Joy

At home here

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Into the house where joy lives

Happiness will gladly come

Japanese saying

Adjusting

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The art of life is a constant adjustment to our surroundings

Okakura Kakuzo, 1862 – 1913, Japanese scholar and writer

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Saying yes

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I rarely let the word “no” escape

from my mouth

because it is plain to my soul

that God has shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes!”

to every luminous moment of existence.

Hafiz

 

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

The real challenge

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The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability,

how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate

through our intimacy with disappearance. 

David Whyte

All is grace

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When you are no longer preoccupied with asking for more and more stuff, then you just take what is given and give what is taken. Life is simple again. A farmer explained it to us this way: “You cannot make the clouds rain more, you cannot make the sun shine less. They are just nature’s gifts — take it or leave it.”

When the things around you are seen as gifts, they are no longer a means to an end; they are the means and the end.

Nipum Mehta Paths are made for Walking

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