Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
Rumi
Sunday Quote: Drained
Tag: Life
The bush may flare
There is no less holiness at this time – as you are reading this – than there was on the day the Red Sea parted, or that day in the 30th year, in the 4th month, on the 5th day of the month as Ezekiel was a captive by the river Cheban, when the heavens opened and he saw visions of god. There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree at the end of your street than there was under Buddha’s bo tree. In any instant the sacred may wipe you with its finger. In any instant the bush may flare, your feet may rise, or you may see a bunch of souls in trees.
Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
Everyday miracles
It is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.
John O’Donohue
Everything is the way
If you view everything as practice,
your suffering will disappear.
Shido Bunan, 1603-1676, Japanese Zen master
Inner Peace
In a village or in a forest,
In deep water or on dry land
Wherever an awakened person lives
That place is a peaceful dwelling
Dhammapada, 98
A long party
Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world.
Hold out your hands to it. When mornings and evenings
roll along, watch how they open and close, how they
invite you to the long party that your life is.
William Stafford A Valley Like This
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