Believe in yourself

Once we believe in ourselves,

we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight,

or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e.e. cummings

Pay close attention

If the doors of perception were cleansed

then everything would appear to man as it is,

Infinite.

William Blake

Mental noise

In the absence of presence there is only that repetitive mental noise,  and part of that mental noise is the story of me. It’s the problematic story that is hoping that at some point in the future that it will no longer be problematic,  not realizing that what it calls ‘future’ has no actual existence

Eckhart Tolle

Sunday quote: No longer striving

For to know nothing is nothing,

not to want to know anything likewise,

but to be beyond knowing anything,

to know you are beyond knowing anything,

that is when peace enters in.

Samuel Beckett, Molloy

It’s the little things

Ask the large questions, but seek small answers.

A flower,

or the space between a branch and a rock,

these are enough.

Kent Nerburn

The river of life

In the web of life, you see the tentativeness of physical incarnation in this world. You come to realize the essential, ephemeral, and ungraspable experience. The river of life and its impermanence makes us see vastness. No moment can ever be repeated, and every moment is always new and then quickly replaced. We find our composure when we realize the ‘everlasting truth of everything changes.’  Life is precious and beautiful and unfathomable

Jack Kornfield.