The person who has gone beyond likes and dislikes, Sri Ramakrishna will say, is like an autumn leaf floating in the wind.
It floats gently here when the wind flows here, it goes there when the wind blows there, and slowly it settles to the ground.
Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
Focus on the positive things you have, rather than the size of the task ahead of you.
Jesus said to his disciples, “How many loaves have you? Mark 6:38
Why worry about the loaves and fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love and the felt ferocity of that love and the felt necessity of that love, the fish explode into many.
Imagine him, speaking, and don’t worry about what is reality, or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it is all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy. Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word spoken with love.
Mary Oliver, Logos
A new month.
Because in the end you won’t remember the time spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Climb that goddamn mountain
Jack Kerouac
In summary,
healing is a transformation of view, rather than a cure
It involves recognizing your intrinsic wholeness
and simultaneously your interconnectedness with everything else
Jon Kabat-Zinn
This is a wonderful day.
I’ve never seen this one before
Maya Angelou
The Autumn Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
If you feel like you’re running out of time, read this: You’re not. …there isn’t a designated time in life for anything, and although it’s hard not to, your timeline shouldn’t be compared to the person standing next to you. Just because the timing was right for them, doesn’t mean it would be right for you. There is enough happiness, love, and opportunity to go round, no matter when it happens. Your life shouldn’t feel like a race, because it isn’t one. Where there are fast days, there should be slow days that follow, days where you can reflect and recalibrate because everything you are going through right now is preparing you for the next chapter, every challenge directly informing the decisions that you’re about to make for yourself.
Being present will show you what is worth taking with you along the way as you navigate life because the destination won’t bring you peace unless you let the journey teach you who you are, and just how much capacity you have to experience change, both within yourself and in the world. You aren’t running out of time, so don’t be afraid to slow down. Things fall into place when we create space for them to.
Seyda Noir
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