Tag: Joy

Sunday Quote: No bitterness

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To wander in the fields of flowers,

pull the thorns from your heart.  

Rumi

Leaving a mark

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said….It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime

Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

Round and round

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On this ever-revolving wheel of being

The individual self goes round and round

Through life after life, believing itself

To be a separate creature – until

It sees its identity with the Lord of Love

And attains immortality in the indivisible Whole.

The Shvetashvatara Upanishad , ancient Sanskrit text, c 5th Century BCE

Just for a little while

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Just for a little while, stop thinking about all the problems, crises, tasks. everything that’s pulling and pushing on us.

Be in that quiet space.  

After all these years, some of us still need permission to let go.

Melody Beatty

…..and Hope

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake,

not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau

Sunday Quote: Give in to joy

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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. ….

Whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty.

Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems