Life could be limitless joy if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.
Tolstoy
Sunday Quote: It’s like this
Tag: Joy
Ebb and flow
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible- in life as in love – is in growth, in fluidity… in freedom.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 – 2001, American author and aviator, Gift from the Sea
Whatever is on the path
Very cold mornings here, with frost on the grass and ice on the roads, making walking and driving quite treacherous.
The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Going deeper
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life
Jung
Lean forward
The truth is that every fresh experience has this dizziness of freedom that we must move through. Every time we reach beyond what is familiar, there is this necessary acclimation to what is new. It is the doorway to all learning. We needn’t be afraid of it or give it too much power. We simply have to keep leaning into what we are learning.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Keep going
Tighter restrictions imposed again after the brief respite of Christmas. Noticing small moments of beauty nourish the spirit
Friend, we’re travelling together.
Throw off your tiredness.
Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
Rumi
