What peace is

Peace is this moment without judgement.

This moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.

Dorothy Hunt, Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment

The well within

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

Sunday Quote: Self

The mind creates many senses of self as it pursues what it desires or responds to lacks in our environment. We often identify with these adaptations, even if they are not worth calling our self

On the journey to myself I’ve been so many people

Indigo Williams, English Poet

An unfolding process

It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly.

That again is part of this paradox.

You cannot rip away caterpillarness.

The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Ram Dass

The Source

Happy are those who know
behind all words, the Unsayable stands,
and from that source, the Infinite
crosses over to gladness, and us.

Free of those bridges we raise
with constructed distinctions;
so that always, in each separate joy,
we gaze at the single, wholly mutual core
.

Rilke, Happy are those who know, translated by Jane Hirshfield

Sunday Quote: Space

We desperately need to make clearances in our entangled lives to let our souls breathe.

John O’Donohue