It’s not the road ahead that wears you out –
it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
Old Arabian Proverb
Sunday Quote: How you travel
Tag: Life
Our pain
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
If we do not transform our pain,
we will transmit it to those around us.
Richard Rohr
A simple practice
As we grow we tend to increasingly live in the future, and what “may” happen.
A baby smiles between fifty and seventy times a day
and a toddler six hundred times, according to research.
I’m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes.
What robs us of it?
Goldie Hawn, 10 Mindful Minutes
Don’t struggle
Wu Wei is like sailing a boat: you don’t push the river, you let it carry you. The skilled sailor adjusts the sails to the wind, but does not try to command the wind itself.
So too in life – true mastery comes not from struggle, but from harmonizing with the way things naturally unfold.
Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way
The choice is yours
You will come across obstacles in life – fair and unfair.
And you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure
Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way,
Monday: a new day
This morning, the sun rose without fanfare, yet it claimed the sky.
The light touches everything – the dew, the stone, the anxious heart – and whispers: You are seen. You are held.
It’s a beautiful day not because it’s perfect, but because within its hours lies the relentless, gentle persistence of grace.
Pádraig Ó Tuama, Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
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