Tag: Joy

Sunday Quote : When we stay quiet

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Silence is the closest thing to God we know.

Meister Eckhart

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Right here, right now

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It [our way] is never apart from this very place;

what is the use of traveling around to practice?

Dogen,   General Advice on the Principles of Zazen

Each moment

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Two quotes from Emerson on surprise and wonder to prompt us to look with fresh eyes today :

In liberated moments, we know that a new picture of life is already possible

The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire, is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

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Sunday Quote: Light

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I wish I could show you,

when you are lonely or in darkness

the astonishing light of your own being

Hafiz

In the bits and pieces

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God is not all in one place complete,

God is in the bits and pieces of everyday,

a kiss here, a smile there,

and sometimes tears.

Patrick Kavanagh

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An active state

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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state – it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle…. Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.

Abraham Heschel