Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right.
Just dance
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life
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Tag: Joy
When Taps leak, and other things go wrong
The moment in which the mind acknowledges ‘This isn’t what I wanted, but it’s what I got’, is the point at which suffering disappears. Sadness might remain present, but the mind … is free to console, free to support the mind’s acceptance of the situation, free to allow space for new possibilities to come into view.
Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness is an Inside Job
Staying Young
This is what it means to be young:
This faith in the most beautiful surprises,
this joy in daily discovery.
Rilke
The Big Question
That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning:
‘Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?’
Mary Oliver, Foreword, Long Life: Essays and other Writing
….whatever you do
Big sporting day in Dublin for the local team….
Leisure and sleep, moments of inactivity and relaxation, can all restore balance within ourselves and allow us touch into our deeper nature. Even a few moments of conscious slowing down, finding some space from our tendency to rush, has a beneficial effect on our overall system. Taking time each day to develop an ongoing practice of mindfulness soothes the nervous system and encourages calm:
The principle of nowness
The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. You may wonder what the best approach is to helping society and how you can know that what you are doing is authentic and good. The only answer is nowness. The way to relax, or rest the mind in nowness, is through the practice of meditation. In meditation you take an unbiased approach. You let things be as they are, without judgment, and in that way you yourself learn to be.
Chogyam Trungpa
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