If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it;
blame yourself,
tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches;
for to the creator there is no poverty
Rainer Maria Rilke
Tag: Life
The importance of knowing that we are not capable of everything
The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal. This will lead us to the valuation of the smallest things, and to wise limitation, which the greater height demands… . The heroic in you is the fact that you are ruled by the thought that this or that is good, that this or that performance is indispensable, … this or that goal must be attained in headlong striving work, this or that pleasure should be ruthlessly repressed at all costs. Consequently you sin against incapacity. But incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it, or shout it down.
Carl Jung, The Red Book
Life knows better than we do
Life has told me that it knows better plans than we can imagine,
so that I try to submerge my own desires…into a calm willingness
to accept whatever comes,
to make the most of it,
then wait again.
Julia Seton, By a Thousand Fires:
Nature notes and extracts from the life and unpublished journals of Ernest Thompson Seton
What we consider enemies
In the course of a day, certain events or how people behave can annoy or disturb us, leading us to consider them as “enemies”, working against our happiness. However, as the Buddha reminds us, it is not the things in themselves which are the problem, but how we react to them:
Your worst enemy can not harm you
as much as your own unfiltered thoughts.
Dhammapada, ch. 3
photo mike peel
Today, do small things well…
Focus on the details of everyday life with fresh eyes. Moments of joy and presence….
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickenson
photo barbara walsh
Sunday Quote: Why are we never happy where we are?
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been,
should have been,
could have been.
Stephen Levine
