No matter how much the spring wind loves the peach blossoms,
they still fall.
Dogen Zenji, 1200-1253
Sunday quote: Hold things lightly
Tag: Joy
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
Freely given
I unlatched the shutters. The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. Nobody needs this much sunlight. Nobody needs droughts, volcanoes, monsoons, tornadoes either, but we get them, because our world is as extravagant as a world can be.
We are the ones obsessed by measurement. The world just pours it out.
Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Sunday Quote: Patience
Sometimes it takes time for the meaning of things to emerge or for us to develop a deeper understanding.
The ox is slow, but the earth is patient.
Indonesian Proverb (or maybe, as some say, Chinese)
