Tag: Joy

Widen the heart

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Get yourself out of the way,

and let joy have more space.

Rumi

Life on your own terms

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Give yourself permission not to be not good at something.

Quietly and softly carve out a life on your own terms. Stop apologizing.

Forgive that sometimes things take a while.

Forgive the low-level, near-constant fear.

Celebrate the small successes.

Perhaps joy is its own body of water, wade out into it.

From the blog of Meg Fee,  Author of Places I stopped on the Way Home

(Photo from Bray Head, Valentia Island with Skellig Island on the horizon)

Stop comparing

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The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up

until you have become convinced that you’re walking the only path open for you

Kosho Uchiyama, Soto Zen priest, 1912 – 1998

Sunday Quote: Everything

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Only one thing made him happy

and now that it was gone

everything made him happy.

 

Leonard Cohen

Sunday Quote: Joy in an incomplete world

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This morning,  thousands rose early to catch the birdsong at dawn in an annual celebration entitled “Dawn Chorus Day” which went out live on radio from locations all over the world

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer,

it sings because it has a song.

 Maya Angelou

The small things

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Do not think that love has to be extraordinary in order to be genuine.

What we need is to love without getting tired.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa