A new month and a new season.
May all that is unforgiven in you,
Be released.
May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquilities.
May all that is unlived in you,
Blossom into a future,
Graced with love.
John O’Donohue, Benedictus
All that is
Tag: Life
its all right
Water, when it flows downstream, does not have a model of what it’s doing. Its just being water, and water flows downstream, because that’s how water works.
The thing that is extraordinarily hard for any of us to truly realize and have sufficient faith to accept, is that if you stop having views, having models, planning, desiring, organizing and structuring….
it’s all right.
Ram Dass
The small ways
If you assume that purpose is something big, you might think its something that you’ll feel at some point down the road, after you’ve achieved something significant. You’re pushing purpose off into the future instead of creating it day-to-day. This mindset prevents you from identifying all the small ways you can contribute to the world right now.
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
Revolving
I hate endings.….The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap.
Why not be more honest with the moment?
The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.
Sam Shepard, 1943 – 2017, American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director.
in this ordinary life
I had a similar encounter yesterday with swallows in Emo Park
There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life, just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.
See within yourself, if you can find it.
I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me. It was magical.
We are already one, yet we know it not.
Thomas Merton
Sunday Quote: Not where or what
In the course of [my] travels it became clear to me that tranquility and peace have nothing to do with the most beautiful places on earth or the most interesting experiences.
They are only to be found in one’s heart.
Ayya Khema, I Give you my life: The Autobiography of a Buddhist Nun
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