Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.
Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything.
that really isn’t you
so you can be who you were meant to be
in the first place.
Paulo Coelho
Tag: Joy
Sunday Quote: New worlds
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg, 1923 – 2010, American counterculture poet and author.
Sunday Quote: Difficult times
A simple reminder for these Covid-19 times
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Blaise Pascal
Notice the treasure before your eyes
One way we need to work with the mind these days is to notice the beauty in the ordinary moments of each day…
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
R.S. Thomas, The Bright Field
Every moment is rich
With the restriction on movement and activities these days due to the virus and our caring for each other by creating some distance, we renounce some of the things we would normally like to do. However, this can make space for noticing what we have in our lives, instead of focusing on what we have not.
The ground of renunciation is realizing that we already have exactly what we need,
that what we have already is good.
Every moment of time has enormous energy in it,
and we could connect with that.
Pema Chodron
Give, not get
On the spiritual path, there’s nothing to get, and everything to get rid of.
Obviously, the first thing to let go of is trying to “get” love, and instead to give it. That’s the secret of the spiritual path. One has to give oneself wholeheartedly. If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth. Love is the warmth of the heart, the connectedness, the protection, the caring, the concern, the embrace that comes from acceptance & understanding for oneself. Having practiced that, we are in a much better position to practice love toward others. We realize they are just as unlovable as we are, and they have just as many unwholesome thoughts. But that doesn’t matter. When we relate to other people, we can let them just be and love them
Ayya Khema
