Tag: Joy

Being captivated by a song

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We hear the birds sing,

and THAT
is the source of all
we see and
touch.

Hafiz

 

Sustainable sources

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Once you are able to quiet the mind, you have a highly sustainable source of happiness. My friends, that is a life-changing insight. That suggests that happiness is not something we pursue, happiness is already there. Happiness is something we access, something we allow. Once you understand that, it changes everything in life. 

Chade-Meng Tan

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