Tag: Joy

The two dynamics

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We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. At birth we were awakened and emerged to become visible in the world. At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible. Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty.

John O Donohue

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Simple instructions for this day

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Smile,

breathe

and go slowly.

Thich Nhat Hahn

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Sunday Quote: Changing our mindset

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Nature does not hurry,

yet everything is accomplished.

 Lao Tzu

Lightness

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Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

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Self blessing

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All of us, from time to time, doubt our inner goodness and beauty. We have to rediscover it within or be reminded by others that it lies there: 

Sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness, 

to put a hand on its brow 

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch 

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within

of self-blessing.

Galway Kinnell, St Francis and the Sow

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Moments are all we have

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How do we cultivate the conditions

for joy to expand?

We train in staying present.

Pema Chodron

photo of Spring wildflowers at Lyrath House, Kilkenny