The invariable mark of wisdom
is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, chapter 8
Tag: Joy
…..finished and unfinished
I love this quote from Karl Rahner, one of the greatest Catholic theologians of the last Century. There is a great comfort in knowing in our bones the truth of these words. We have to continually balance two aspects within us: one which wants to know everything, to be everywhere, to be faithful to the energy and desire within. The other is that restlessness which knows that this can never really be possible, and that how we relate to what we don’t know is ultimately more important than what we do know.
In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable
we eventually learn that here, in this life,
all symphonies remain unfinished
Cup by cup
But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,
and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds
with the wooden spoon, I remembered,
this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety
or of fruitfulness?
Marie Howe, American Poet, From Nowhere
Fully here
When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. The same is true of time. When you touch one moment with true awarenes, you touch all moments. According to the Avatamsaka Sutra, “The one contains the all”. If you live one moment deeply, that moment contains all the past and the future in it
Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home
Sunday Quote: Living parallel lives
Waking up to who you are requires letting go
of who you imagine yourself to be.
Alan Watts
Doing simple things well
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly
will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Friedrich Schiller
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