The bad news is: you are falling through the air,
nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is: there’s no ground
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.
Rumi
As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me,
coexisting with my tempers and my fears,
unchanged by my joys or my pain.
Rachel Naomi Remen
photo of monastery garden Bolton Abbey Kildare
May my silences become more accurate
Theodore Roethke, American poet, 1908 – 1963, Words for Young Writers
photo richard outram
The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers:
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?”
Sufi Proverb
The lesson of spiritual life is not about gaining knowledge,
but about how we love.
Are we able to love what is given to us,
love in the midst of all things,
love ourselves and others?
Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Silence is the closest thing to God we know.
Meister Eckhart
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