Everyday

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It is our interest in our experiences that enables us to become insightful, understanding and wise regarding them…By looking at our mundane and unacceptable experiences with an interested and open mind, insight, understanding and investigation can actually be fostered.

Jason Siff

Being with what is

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If you can’t see what you are looking for,

see what’s there.

It’s enough.

Mark Nepo

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Today is where we live

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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

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Our deepest fears

are the dragons guarding from us

our greatest treasures.

Rilke

Curious about the mind

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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.

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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