I don’t think that you have to get all your inner stuff together and totally integrated before you can actually be what you’ve realized. You’re going to wait forever if you wait for that.
Just start being what you know now.
Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
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
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
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
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land
Annie Dilliard
