Same understanding as yesterday’s quote, but from the Western tradition
I have spoken at times of a light in the deepest self,
a light that is uncreated and uncreatable,
and to the extent that we can turn away from created things, we shall find our unity and blessing in that little spark,
which neither space nor time touches.
Meister Eckhart
All you can do for another person is be an environment
in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
In moments of darkness and pain
remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door
Spring will come again
Loy Ching-Yuen (1873 – 1960) Chinese Taoist tai chi master.
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a new-born child that has no name.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man. Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
When we recognize and become grounded in awareness of awareness, the “wind” of emotion may still blow.
But instead of being carried away by the wind, we turn our attention inward, watching the shifts and changes with the intention of becoming familiar with that aspect of consciousness that recognizes Oh, this is what I’m feeling, this is what I’m thinking. As we do so, a bit of space opens up within us. With practice, that space — which is the mind’s natural clarity — begins to expand and settle.
We can begin to watch our thoughts and emotions without necessarily being affected by them quite as powerfully or vividly as we’re used to. We can still feel our feelings, think our thoughts, but slowly our identity shifts from a person who defines him or herself as lonely, ashamed, frightened, or hobbled by low self-esteem to a person who can look at loneliness, shame, and low self-esteem as movements of the mind.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, The Aim of Attention
Thinking is difficult,
that’s why most people judge.
Jung
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