Sometimes I go about in pity for myself,
and all the while,
a great wind carries me across the sky
Ojibwe Tribe saying.
Sunday Quote: Remind yourself
Tag: Joy
Hello to here
It has taken years to continue to live into the truth that if I believe we are from God and for God, then we are from Goodness and for Goodness. To greet sorrow today does not mean that sorrow will be there tomorrow. Happiness comes too, and grief, and tiredness, disappointment, surprise and energy. Chaos and fulfilment will be named as well as delight and despair. This is the truth of being here, wherever here is today. It may not be permanent but it is here. I will probably leave here, and I will probably return. To deny here is to harrow the heart. Hello to here.
Pádraig Ó Tuama, In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
Long slow time
I am trying to teach my mind
to bear the long, slow growth
of the fields, and to sing
of its passing while it waits.
William Berry, From the Crest
with thanks to David Kanigan, Thrive blog
Guidebook
Three Guides –
No Blame.
Be Kind.
Love Everything.
Terrance Keenan, artist, poet, Zen Buddhist Monk, formerly head monk at the Zen Center of Syracuse.
Take the leap
There are second thoughts happening each time you act.
There is hesitation, and from that hesitation or gap, you can go backward or forward. Changing the flow of karma happens in that gap. So the gap is very useful.
It is in the gap that you give birth to a new life.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation
Sunday Quote: Lovelinesss
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day
Evelyn Underhill, 1875 – 1941, English writer on mysticism
