The first day of a new season in the old Celtic calendar
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we humans know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
We have the good fortune to be born as human beings..
Let us be joyous.
Dogen
Think lightly of yourself
and deeply of the world.
Miyamoto Musashi, 1584 – 1645, Japanese swordsman and philosopher, author of The Book of Five Rings
You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As is your desire, so is your intention.
As is your intention, so is your will.
As is your will, so is your deed
As your deed is, so is your destiny,
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Hindu Scriptures, 7th-6th century BCE.
If there is no regarding of phenomena as “mine”
Then the self who suffers
is not constructed
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
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