I find hope in the darkest of days
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
The Dalai Lama
Sunday Quote: trust
Tag: Joy
A simple practice
As we grow we tend to increasingly live in the future, and what “may” happen.
A baby smiles between fifty and seventy times a day
and a toddler six hundred times, according to research.
I’m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes.
What robs us of it?
Goldie Hawn, 10 Mindful Minutes
Acceptance and openness
When you combine acceptance with responsibility and defenselessness, your work becomes an expression of your higher purpose.
You stop wasting energy resisting office politics, stressing over deadlines, or obsessing over outcomes.
Instead, you focus on creative solutions, trusting that the universe will support your intentions when you act in alignment with truth and compassion.
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Sunday Quote: Live by love
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
e e cummings, dive for dreams
Sunday Quote: gratitude
I cannot pretend I am without fear.
But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.
I have loved and been loved;
I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
Oliver Sacks, Gratitude
Instruct myself in joy
It was what I was born for –
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world –
to instruct myself over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant –
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar, I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these –
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean’s shine,
the prayers that are made out of grass?
Mary Oliver, Mindful
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