Tag: Life

A secret destiny

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The shape of each soul is different.

There is a secret destiny for each person.

We need to return to the solitude within, to find again the dream that lies at the hearth of the soul. We need to feel the dream with the wonder of a child approaching a threshold of discovery. The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. The divine has such passionate creativity and instinct for the fully inhabited life. Our clay shape gradually learns to walk beautifully on this magnificent earth.

John O’Donohue,  Anam Cara

Where to focus

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Focus not on the rudeness of others,
not on what they’ve done or left undone,
but on what you have and  haven’t done
yourself.

Dhammapada, 4

 

Everything in just one moment

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Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
Lewis Carroll

More than just you

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You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own.

The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from  Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, In Praise of  Mortality–Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.

What is here, is good enough

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Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

Ajahn Sumedho

Work with what we are given

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We drift in and out of knowing our aliveness. Pain, worry, fear, and loss can muffle and confuse us. But ……aliveness is not a judge in a talent show. Aliveness shows itself in response to wholeheartedness, when we can say yes to life, and work with what we’re given, and stay in relationship — to everything.   

 Mark Nepo, Everyone has a gift