Tag: Joy

Getting old

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No one grows old by living

– only by losing interest in living

Marie Beynon Rey

Sunday Quote: Flow with whatever

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Do not force things…. Can you afford to be careless?

So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. 

David H. Rosen, The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity

Sunday Quote: Just as things are

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The best meditation and, indeed, life instruction ….

The lillies!
The stems, just as they are,
the flowers, just as they are.

Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694, Japanese poet, recognised as the greatest exponent of the haiku form.

Continually expecting

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Our continual mistake is that we do not concentrate upon the present day, the actual hour, of our life; we live in the past or the future;

We are continually expecting the coming of some special hour when our life shall unfold itself in its full significance.

And we do not observe that life is flowing like water through our fingers, sifting like precious grains from a loosely fastened bag.

Alexander Elchaninov, 1881 – 1943, Russian Orthodox priest 

Aliveness

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a new month begins…

imagine! imagine!

The wild and wondrous journeys

still to be ours

Mary Oliver, Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me [extract]

Healthy energies

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The more you can free yourself from

your internalization of the gaze of others,

the more liberated you feel…[and]…the more you will unleash the healthy energies of the mind.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Under your Skin