What you need,
what we all need, is silence,
Stop the noise in your mind,
in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard
Thich Nhat Hahn
a real break
Tag: Joy
devoted to gratitude
What would it be like
to awaken to a day devoted to gratitude
a day of thankfulness for what was
and yet will be?
Stephen Levine
Every day is a new day
For the new month….
Every moment is a surprise, if we have the eyes to see it.
The more we cultivate awareness,
the more we realize that even the ordinary is extraordinary.
David Steindal-Rast
Sunday Quote: Doing and non-doing
True joy does not come from having or receiving,
but from being… where all delight begins and ends.
Meister Eckhart, Sermon 52, On Detachment
Being open to surprises
Even the long-beloved
was once an unrecognized stranger.
Just so, the chipped lip of a blue-glazed cup,
blown field of a yellow curtain,
might also,
flooding and falling,
ruin your heart.
A table painted with roses.
An empty clothesline.
Each time,
the found world surprises –
that is its nature.
And then
what is said by all lovers:
“What fools we were, not to have seen.”
Jane Hirshfield, Meeting the Light Completely
More and more stuff
If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don’t need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don’t need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff.
Much of our modern way of life is permeated by mindless overborrowing. The more we borrow, the more we lose. That’s why it’s critical that we wake up and see we don’t need to do that anymore. What’s already available in the here and now is plenty for us to be nourished, to be happy. Only that kind of insight will get us, each one of us, to stop engaging in the compulsive, self-sabotaging behaviours of our species.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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