For the next seven days, see if you can arrive early for scheduled appointments. Notice how this impacts upon your state of mind. Do meetings feel more spacious? Do you feel more relaxed and better prepared? Do you feel that more is actually accomplished? Sub-rule to this practice: If you are late, relax. Just be late. Don’t punish yourself
Marc Lesser, 3 practices to shift your relationship with time
Only knowledge gained through experience, the fruit of living and suffering, fills the heart with the wisdom of love, instead of crushing it with the disappointment of boredom and final oblivion. It is not the results of our own speculation, but the golden harvest of what we have lived through and suffered through, that has the power to enrich the heart and nourish the spirit. And all the knowledge we have acquired through study can do no more than give us some little help in meeting the problems of life with an alert and ready mind.
Karl Rahner
Most of us have learned to live, or have been encouraged to live, in a manner where we get love.
We want to be loved, and we think that being loved is the highest point.
But actually, loving is the highest point.
Stephen Levine
Keep walking, though there is no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distance.
That’s not for human beings.
Move within
but don’t move the way fear makes you move
Rumi
When we notice that the conditions of the mind and the body are just the way conditions are, it’s a simple recognition. It’s not an analysis and it is not anything special. It’s just a bare recognition, a direct knowing of whatever passes away. Knowing in this way demands a certain amount of patience; otherwise as soon as any fear, anger or unpleasantness arises, we will run away from it. So meditation is also the ability to endure, and bear with, the unpleasant. We don’t seek it out; we are not ascetics, looking for painful things to endure so that we can prove ourselves. We are simply recognizing the way it is right now. Meditation is established on that which is ordinary, not on that which is extraordinary.
Ajahn Sumedho, The Mind and the Way.
Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
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