Tag: Joy

To be still

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Every other creature on the face of the Earth knows how to just shut up and sit: a butterfly on a leaf, a cat in front of a fireplace. Even a hummingbird comes to rest sometimes. But humans seem to be constantly on the move all day long. Even during the night we have to dope ourselves just to fall asleep. We seem to have lost the ability of our primitive ancestors to just be still with ourselves. Out of that stillness, our whole life arises.

John Daido Loori, The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training

A mind at ease

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Silence is something that comes

from your heart, not from outside.

Silence doesn’t mean not talking

and not doing things.

It means that you are not disturbed inside.

Thich Nhat Hanh

To be celebrated

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A new month dawns. Brighter days. Moving further into Spring…

Once upon a time,
When women were birds,
There was the simple understanding
That to sing at dawn
And to sing at dusk
Was to heal the world through joy.
The birds still remember what we have forgotten,
That the world is meant to be celebrated.

Terry Tempest Williams, born 1955, American writer, educator, conservationist, and activist

Sunday Quote: Unknown

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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Being a bigger container

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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against.

If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one’s presence would be healing.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, 1882 – 1927,  Sufi teacher and founder of the Sufi Order in the West 

Singing

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A beautiful Spring morning, open to possibilities and kindness

If you keep a green bough
in your heart,
a singing bird
will come.

Chinese Proverb