Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: Looking at nature

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We bundle up but trees go naked in winter.

Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist

Words to let sink in

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Look at the birds
Consider the lilies
Drink ye all of it
Ask
Seek
Knock
Enter by the narrow gate
Do not be anxious
Judge not; do not give dogs what is holy
Go: be it done for you
Do not be afraid
Maiden, arise
Young man, I say, arise
Stretch out your hand
Stand up, be still
Rise, let us be going…

Kathleen Norris, Imperatives (Extract) 

Not sticking to thoughts

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Freedom from form means holding forms lightly in the midst of form.

Freedom from thought means having no thought in the midst of thought.

Huineng, 638–713, Sixth Patriarch of Zen

Sunday Quote: Working with the conditions in our life

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Another storm system passing over Ireland today, in the very wet Autumn which we are having.

As the Arab proverb says: 

“The nature of the rain is the same,

but it makes thorns grow in the marshes

and flowers in the gardens“

Anthony de Mello, Awareness

All is held

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The leaves are falling, falling as from far off,
as though far gardens withered in the skies;
they are falling with denying gestures.

And in the nights the heavy earth is falling
from all the stars down into loneliness.

We are all falling. This hand falls.
And look at others; it is in them all.

And yet there is One who holds this falling
endlessly gently in his hands.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Autumn

Create joy

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Life will bring you pain all by itself.

Your responsibility is to create joy

Milton Erikson, American Psychologist,