So far, the days keep coming.
Seize the day gently as if you loved her
Jim Harrison, 1937 – 2016, American poet and writer
Tag: Life
Sunday Quote: Looking at nature
We bundle up but trees go naked in winter.
Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
Words to let sink in
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
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
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
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
