Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday necessities
of being alive
David Whyte
Sunday quote: Courage
Tag: Joy
Where you stand
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
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
Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday Quote: Good
What matters is the good we did
Not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
The best season
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai, 1183 – 1260, Chinese Chan master
Stephen Mitchell translation
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