Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: Within

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Find a place inside where there’s joy,

and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell

 

Saturday: Choiceless patience

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea

Ann Morrow Lindberg,  Gift from the Sea

A new month: move forward and stay still

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What is it then that sits in my heart,
that breathes so quietly, and without lungs —
that is here, here in this world, and yet not here?

Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem

Familiar moments

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Beautiful summer mornings here these last few days…

But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,

and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds
with the wooden spoon, I remembered,

this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety

or of fruitfulness? 

Marie Howe, From Nowhere

Accepting

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To see the Way with your own eyes,

quit agreeing and disagreeing.

This battle between likes and dislikes – that’s the primal disease of the mind.

Seng–ts’an, 529 – 606,  Inscription on Faith in Mind

Thoughts on waking

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To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
To remember the other world in this world
is to live in your true inheritance.
You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident amidst other accidents,
you were invited from another and greater night
than the one from which you have just emerged.
Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window
toward the mountain presence of everything that can be
what urgency calls you to your one love?
What shape waits in the seed of you
to grow and spread its branches
against a future sky?
David Whyte, What to Remember when Waking