If you can’t see what you are looking for,
see what’s there.
It’s enough.
Mark Nepo
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Tag: Joy
Today is where we live
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Philip Larkin
Sunday Quote: Sitting with dragons
Our deepest fears
are the dragons guarding from us
our greatest treasures.
Rilke
Curious about the mind
The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether has to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. The ground is ourselves; we’re here to study ourselves and to get to know ourselves now, not later. One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem; the point is to see it.
Pema Chodron.
photo Vitold Muratov
Being comfortable with non-doing
The emptiness of the desert makes it possible to learn the almost impossible:
the joyful acceptance of our uselessness.
Ivan Illich
Mysteries
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Mary Oliver, Evidence.
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