If you can’t see what you are looking for,
see what’s there.
It’s enough.
Mark Nepo
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Tag: Life
Things happen in their own time
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
and then, if we are true to plan,
our statures touch the skies.
Emily Dickinson. We never know how high we are
Photo Steve F
A prayer to nature
Earth teach me stillness
As the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me acceptance and readiness
As the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
As the seed which rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself
As melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
As dry fields weep with rain.
Prayer of the Ute people
Balance…. interior and exterior
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person or deed can still. In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new together. No one else can undertake this task for you. You are the one and the only threshold of an inner world. This wholesomeness is holiness. To be holy is to be natural, to befriend worlds that come to balance in you.
John O’Donohue, AnamChara
Noticing the “buts”
When the mind is coloured by a dualistic perspective, every experience – even moments of joy and happiness – is bounded by some sense of limitation. There is always a but lurking in the background. One kind of but is the but of difference: “Oh my birthday cake was wonderful but I would have liked chocolate cake instead of carrot cake”. Then there is the but of “better”: “I love my new house, but my friend John’s place is bigger and has much better light”. And finally there is the but of fear: “I can’t stand my job, but in this market how will I ever find another one”…I’ve begun to recognize..that feelings of limitation, anxiety fear and so on are just so much neuronal gossip. They are in essence, habits. And habits can be unlearned.
Yongey Mingpur Rinpoche, The Joy of Living
Sunday Quote: Colour
There is not one little blade of grass,
there is no colour in this world
that is not intended to make men rejoice.
John Calvin
