A slight antidote to some of the overly sentimental messages popular on this day:
In Irish, when you talk about trust, there’s a beautiful phrase from West Kerry where you say, “mo sheasamh ort lá na choise tinne” — “You are the place where I stand on the day when my feet are sore.” That is soft and kind language, but it is so robust. That is what we can have with each other.
Padraig O’Tuama, On Being Blog
Dhamma is simple:
Live with love and be aware.
It is only the mind that complicates this teaching and says that it is not enough.
Michael Kewley, Former Buddhist monk, currently teaching courses on Awareness and meditation
One of the challenges of ongoing lockdowns is that we postpone life until this is all over, and because of this, the possibilities that are there in every day can pass us by.
Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.
Paulo Coelho
What’s magical, sometimes, has deeper roots
than reason.
I hope everyone knows that.
Mary Oliver, Such Silence
If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live.
If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.
Thomas Merton, Love and Living
When you die, only three things will remain of you, since you will abandon all material things on the threshold of the Otherworld:
What you have taught to others,
what you have created with your hands,
and how much love you have spread.
So learn more and more in order to teach wise, long-lasting values. Work more and more to leave the world things of great beauty.
François Bourillon, A French Druid Triad
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