It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
John O’Donohue, For a New Beginning [extract]
Let me fall if I must.
The one I will become will catch me
Baal Shem Tov, 1698 – 1760, Jewish mystic, regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism
Many of us have been running all our lives
Practice stopping
Thich Nhat Hanh
“You don’t have to
prove anything” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends“
Poet William Stafford died of a heart attack in August 1993, having written a poem that morning with these words…
The human body, at peace with itself,
is a more precious thing than the rarest gem.
This life you must know as the tiny splash of a raindrop, a thing of beauty that disappears even as it comes into being.
Therefore set your goal, make use of every day and night to achieve it
Je Tsongkhapa, 1357–1419, influential Tibetan Buddhist monk,
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