The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
Anaïs Nin
Tag: Life
A secret destiny
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
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
Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
Lewis Carroll
More than just you
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
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
