You are fooled by your mind
into believing that there is tomorrow,
so you may waste today
Ishin Yoshimoto, 1916 – 1988) Japanese Buddhist priest, founder of the Naikan meditation method
Sunday Quote: Wasting this moment
Tag: Life
I can be happy
I am aware that happiness depends on my mental attitude, and not on external circumstances.
and that I can live happily in the present moment
simply by remembering that I already have more than enough conditions to be happy
Thich Nhat Hanh
Unseen
There is always something coming to birth
Even when we don’t desire it,
God is ripening.
Rilke, The Book of Hours I, 16
Not our fault
It’s a relief to know that pain comes with life
so that we can stop judging ourselves when it arises
Vidyamala Burch
Sunday Quote: speed
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
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
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