Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: Look

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Problems as opportunities

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View all problems as challenges.
Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow.
Don’t run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. 
You have a problem? Great. 
More grist for the mill.

Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

Wait in silence

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There are some things that we simply must wait in silence to receive.

We live our questions and wait for the knowing to happen.

Like the tree, we wait for the sap to rise.

Sue Monk Kidd, When The Heart Waits

Thoughts about

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Finally calm again after some days of wind and rain..

Life does not consist mainly – or even largely – of facts and happenings.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.

Mark Twain, Autobiography

Sunday Quote: Wilderness

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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land

Annie Dilliard

Mud

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Continuing with a sequence of Mary Oliver poems for autumn. A lot of wind and rain here yesterday and overnight. Plenty of mud…

Angels are wonderful but they are so, well, aloof.
It’s what I sense in the mud and the roots of the
trees, or the well, or the barn, or the rock with
its citron map of lichen that halts my feet and 
makes my eyes flare, feeling the presence of some
spirit, some small god, who abides there.

If I were a perfect person, I would be bowing
continuously. 
I’m not, though I pause wherever I feel this
holiness, which is why I’m so often late coming
back from wherever I went.

Forgive me.

Mary Oliver, Forgive me