Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all.
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone
W.B.Yeats, A Prayer for Old Age
From the heart
Tag: Life
The way we travel
Human beings do not find their essence through fulfillment or eventual arrival,
but by staying close to the way they like to travel,
to the way they hold the conversation between the ground on which they stand and the horizon to which they go.
We are, in effect, always close to the ultimate secret:
that we are more real in our simple wish to find a way than any destination we could reach
David Whyte, Consolations
this precious moment
We tend to think that life will occur sometime later. However, this moment – exactly as it is – is the full disclosure of reality.
When you find your place right where you are,
the Way itself is being lived out,
and we realize the entire universe in the present moment.
Dōgen, Genjōkōan,
Stop interpreting
We gain peace of mind when we recognize that, in this moment, nothing is actually missing. The sacred is not elsewhere.
Rice in the bowl
Water in the bucket
Zen koan response by Yumen when asked what is fully awakened awareness
Come and Go
Shifting the nervous system from fusion to observation.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal.
They are conditions of the human mind.
They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday Quote: Notice
We usually dont look,
we overlook
Alan Watts
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