Among the sixteen types of meditation,
the baby’s practice is the best.
Yuan Wu, Chinese Chan monk, 1063–1135
photo zivya
Tag: Joy
Sunday Quote: Joy
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
Sunday Quote: No map….
You must give up the life you planned
in order to have the life that is waiting for you
Joseph Campbell
Not striving
You don’t have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, “God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction.” You don’t do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you’re free.
Anthony de Mello, sj.
photo paul nelhams
The secret for a full life
The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
The Hearts Actions
Everything has two endings – a horse, a piece of string, a phone call.
Before a life, air.
And after.
As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.
As some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking.
So it was when love slipped inside us.
As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
The heart’s actions
are neither the sentence nor its reprieve.
Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite.
One bird singing back to another because it can’t not
Jane Hirshfield, born 1953, American poet: Come, Thief: Poems
photo brian robert marshall
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