Tag: Joy

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)

Sunday quote: Courage

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Courage is what love looks like

when tested by the simple everyday necessities

of being alive

David Whyte

Where you stand

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How refreshingly bright is the moon of the Fourfold Wisdom!

Being so, is there anything you lack as the absolute presents itself before you?

The place where you stand is the Land of the Lotus,
And your person — the body of the Buddha.

Hakuin, Japanese Zen poet, 1686 – 1768.

Sufficient meaning

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I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.

Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears

Jung, Autobiography

Holding things lightly

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Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle