Everyday

Life does not get in the way

It is the way

Rebecca Li, Chan meditation teacher

Joy

Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy.

Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.

It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.

David Steindal-Rast osb

Having a happy life

The trick to having a happy life is to remember that it all comes down to what we ourselves make of the life we have. 

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, Ralph Waldo Emerson says, ” but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger and mosquitoes and silly people.”

Joan Chittister, The Monastic Way, June 2022

Sunday Quote: Choose conscious living

Sit with those who are awake

or the caravan will leave while you are still asleep.

Rumi

The only day we have

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Just be ready

“You don’t have to

prove anything” my mother said. “Just be ready

for what God sends

Poet William Stafford died of a heart attack in August 1993, having written a poem that morning with these words…