The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
Sunday Quote: speed
Tag: Life
autumn lessons – what falls away
Ripeness is
what falls away with ease.
Not only the heavy apple,
the pear,
but also the dried brown strands
of autumn iris from their core.
To let your body
love this world
that gave itself to your care
in all of its ripeness,
with ease,
and will take itself from you
in equal ripeness and ease,
is also harvest.
And however sharply
you are tested –
this sorrow, that great love –
it too will leave on that clean knife.
Jane Hirshfield, Ripeness
Compensatory programs
Beginning in infancy (or even before) each of us, in response to perceived threats to our well-being, develops a false self: a set of protective behaviors driven at root by a sense of need and lack. The essence of the false self is driven, addictive energy, consisting of tremendous emotional investment in compensatory “emotional programs for happiness.”
Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
What’s real
We live the given life, and not the planned
Wendell Berry
Sunday Quote: to slow down
All this rushing
Will soon be over;
For it is in lingering
That we receive insight.
Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Let life flow
When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself.
When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier – it can flow in ways you never imagined.
Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way.
Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
Adyashanti
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