Tag: Life

Openness

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Your relationship to time reveals your capacity to trust that whatever is present each day, you can handle; otherwise it would not be there. The surprising or unexpected happenings of each day reveal your attachments and teach you about your ability or inability to remain flexible. In what ways are you manifesting the 5 simple qualities of childlike openness:

Not worrying about your daily bread 

Not complaining when you fall sick

Sharing whatever you have

When you fight or quarrel, not holding a grudge and making up quickly

Showing your vulnerability when frightened or threatened.

Angelus Arrien

Sunday Quote: No bitterness

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To wander in the fields of flowers,

pull the thorns from your heart.  

Rumi

Leaving a mark

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said….It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime

Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

Sunday quote: How we work with things

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It’s not the load that breaks you down.

It’s the way you carry it

C.S. Lewis

A deeper seat

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At some point in your growth, it starts to become quieter inside. This happens quite naturally as you take a deeper seat within yourself. You then come to realize that although you have always been in there, you have been completely overwhelmed by the constant barrage of thoughts, emotions, and sensory inputs that draw on your consciousness. As you see this, it begins to dawn on you that you might actually be able to go beyond all these disturbances. The more you sit in the seat of witness consciousness, the more you realize that since you are completely independent of what you are watching, there must be a way to break free of the magical hold that the psyche has on your awareness.

Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul

Stop talking

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You must stop talking to yourself. Every one of us does that…..we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his talking. This is the last point you have to know if you want to live like a warrior.

Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan