Tag: Life

weather report

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What if I were to allow my inner weather to become a Weather Report? Think of it this way: the tides of my life, the ebb and flow of my emotional weather, can tell me how I am at any moment – happy or desperate, discouraged, outraged or quiet. Two hours ago I was tense and anxious. Now I am pensive and relaxed. What will I be next? Everything changes, so if I have a little patience my moods and attitudes will change too.

Aha! A Weather Report! That’s the point! To see, to take stock of my inner weather, just as I would with a glance out my window as I plan my day. Not to judge or complain, not to accuse or deny. Let my inner weather tell me how I am.

Patty De Llosa, Blogpost, “I Am Always Here,” said the Sun

Sunday quote: self-talk

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Talk to yourself like someone you love

Brene Brown

To be there

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Maybe that’s it, the meaning of life, or one of them, the best of them: to find the moments that are not the things that happen, but the things that finally are. To be there. To be in them. To feel the world hold its breath, and you holding yours with it, and know that in the stillness, in the quiet, in the waiting, there is everything

Niall Williams, This is Happiness

Why aren’t you?

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The forest is peaceful , why aren’t you?

You hold onto the things that are causing you confusion.

Let nature teach you. Hear the birdsong, then let go.

If you know nature, you’ll know the truth

If you know truth, You’ll know nature

Ajahn Chah

Living inside the mystery

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To be human is to be a conversation between what we think we know and the great mystery that surrounds us.

We are not here to conquer that mystery, but to live inside it, to let it shape us, to let it ask its impossible questions of us.

David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

No effort is meaningless

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On this path, no effort is ever lost, nor can any harm come.

Even a little progress on this path is complete freedom from fear

Bhagavad Gita 2.40

Commentary by Gandhi: Even a little effort at selfless service saves one from the fear of being meaningless or useless.