Sufficient meaning

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon.

Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears

Jung, Autobiography

Sunday Quote: Power

The most common way people give up their power,

is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

A big empty space

A long weekend here in Ireland.

My home can be anywhere, heaven or earth.
All I need is room in my heart.
And a good source of water, of course.

You need room in your heart . . . a big empty space
To sort out what’s real from what’s not.

Hsu Yun, 1840 – 1959, renowned and influential Chinese Chan Buddhist master

Holding things lightly

Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

What’s known and unknown

Look at love – how it tangles
with the one fallen in love

look at spirit – how it fuses with earth
giving it new life.

Why are you so busy with this or that, or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend.

Why talk about all the known and the unknown
see how the unknown merges into the known

Rumi, Look at Love [extract]

Sunday Quote: Good

What matters is the good we did

Not the good we expected others to do.

Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow