Tag: Joy

Sunday Quote: Let go

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What’s needed is self-surrender, not endless effort.

Rumi

Step by step

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A cuckoo’s song beckons me to return home,
Hearing this, I tilt my head to see
Who has told me to turn back;
But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.

 Dogen, 1200 – 1253

Believe in yourself

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Once we believe in ourselves,

we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight,

or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e.e. cummings

Sunday quote: No longer striving

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For to know nothing is nothing,

not to want to know anything likewise,

but to be beyond knowing anything,

to know you are beyond knowing anything,

that is when peace enters in.

Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Take the Present

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Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,
Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answers
In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.
This could be our last winter, it could be many
More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:
Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines
And forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk.

Take the present, the future’s no one’s affair.

Horace, 65 – 8 BC,  Ode 1, 11

Mirth

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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be.

You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

G.K. Chesterton