Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Theresa
Tag: Life
Sunday Quote: Just stay in the moment
Things arise – just let them come;
Things disappear – just let them go.
Create but do not possess
Act but don’t expect.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Good for growth
In Ireland today’s forecast is for sun, so we can sit outdoors or maybe even have a barbecue. We are always wishing for sun but in reality, we encounter clouds and bad humour, and rain has its uses in nature as in life…
Sunshine all the time makes a desert
Arab Proverb
We always think we need to do more..
Our heart is often divided by doubt and our efforts go into what or how we should be, or into trying to prove ourselves. We need to dis-engage from this mind which produces narratives such as ‘I need to do more” and not hold on to notions of progress which require a perfect self-image:
Thomas Merton said the way we have structured our lives, we spend our whole life climbing up the ladder of supposed success, and when we get to the top of the ladder we realize it is leaning against the wrong wall — and there is nothing at the top. To get back to the place of inherent abundance, you have to let go of all of the false agendas, unreal goals, and passing self-images. It is all about letting go. The spiritual life is more about unlearning than learning, because the deepest you already knows.
Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go
Sunday Quote: Full of wonder
This is a wonderful day.
I’ve never seen this one before
Maya Angelou
You make the waves
Very stormy weather in Ireland this past week, continuing overnight with heavy rain. The Eastern tradition called the causes of emotional pain ‘worldly winds’: gusts of blame and loss, happiness and unhappiness. They blow through the heart and throw us off balance, making us feel that we never feel good enough where we are or how our life actually is:
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble.
You yourself make the waves in your mind.
If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm.
This mind is called big mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
