Life will bring you pain all by itself.
Your responsibility is to create joy
Milton Erikson, American Psychologist,
Tag: Joy
Everything, everywhere
The gate of heaven is everywhere.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Supports all around
Just when the worst bears down
You find a pretty bubble in your soup at noon
And outside a bird says “hi”
Slowly the sun creeps along the floor;
It is coming your way. It touches your shoe.
William Stafford, It’s all Right
Maintaining an underlying confidence
If you get into agreeable circumstances, then shine through agreeable circumstances. If you fall into adverse situations, then shine through adverse situations. When greed or desire arise, shine through greed and desire; when hatred or anger arise, shine through hatred and anger; when you act out of ignorance, shine through ignorance. When the three poisons of hatred, greed, and ignorance are not more, and the mind is pure, shine through that pure mind. At all times, in all places, be it desires, senses, gain, loss, right, wrong…..in all things shine through with your whole body
Hakuin, 1686 – 1769, On Kensho, The Four Ways of Knowing
Comparing
We measure ourselves against others and imagine that the measurement defines the self.
Enkyo Pat O’Hara
Sunday Quote: Being true to oneself
We have been raised to fear the yes in ourselves
Audre Lorde, 1934 – 1992, American writer and civil rights activist
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