The only way to make sense out of change
is to plunge into it,
move with it,
and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Join the dance
Tag: Joy
Natural unfolding
We think we’re supposed to figure out how life should be, and then make it that way. Only someone who looks deeper, and questions why we need the events of life to be in a particular way, will question this assumption. How did we come up with the notion that life is not okay just the way it is, or that it won’t be okay the way it will be? Who said that the way it naturally unfolds is not all right?
The answer is, fear says so. The part of you inside that is not okay with itself can’t face the natural unfolding of life because it’s not under your control. We define the entire scope of our outer experience based on our inner problems.
Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul
Sunday quote: Hold things lightly
No matter how much the spring wind loves the peach blossoms,
they still fall.
Dogen Zenji, 1200-1253
Home as a place of rest
If you can accept your body, then you have a chance to see your body as your home. You can rest in your body, settle in, relax, and feel joy and ease. If you don’t accept your body and your mind, you can’t be at home with yourself. You have to accept yourself as you are. This is a very important practice. As you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Deeper growth
We cannot say that we would have chosen much of what has happened this past year, but when things go well, we rarely stop to ask questions about our lives. A difficult situation, however, means we can see reality in a fresh way….
Even when we don’t desire it,
God is ripening.
Rilke, The Book of Hours I, 16
Surrender
Surrender to the way things want to happen next, even though this often involves a vast and terrifying loss of control.
Trust the magic that was born into your soul.
Martha Beck, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World
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