Tensions are part of life

We could say that New Age people in general are addicted to harmony.

The alchemical woodcut says that a child will not become an adult until it breaks the addiction to harmony, chooses the one precious thing, and enters into a joyful participation in the tensions of the world.

Robert Bly, Iron John

Let go

The sun will set without your assistance

Talmud quote found in H. Polano The Talmud: Selections

Schedules

A Bank Holiday here in Ireland; a non-working day and so a different way in which we relate to time:

So many times I have been unable to listen or to notice what someone was going through or where they were headed because it didn’t meet with my schedule. Patience and timing are inextricably linked. Patience, which we can regard with such excruciation, offers a hidden reward. When we stop watching the pot, we may learn that it boils right on time.

Sometimes my father would forget to wind the big clock, the weights would fall, and time would stop.

We wind the clock. It does not have to wind us.

Barry Boyce, What Time is Now?

Sunday Quote: Drink in

Set wide the window

Let me drink the day

Edith Wharton

Seasons

The first of May marks the start of Summer in the old Celtic way of dividing the seasons

The heart’s seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

The soul, too, has its own hours of Winter and Spring.

Myrtle Reed 1874 – 1911, American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist.

Not the story of my life

Therefore, whatever feeling, past, future or present, internal or external, ….. must be regarded with proper wisdom, in this way:

‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.’

The Buddha, Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic