All we need is to experience what we already possess
Thomas Merton
How do you let go of attachment to things?
Don’t even try. It’s impossible.
Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them
Eckhart Tolle
Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference
Marcus Aurelius
You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
if you do not listen to the sounds of life,
if you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly
If you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice.
Pablo Neruda, You Start Dying Slowly
A new month and a new season.
May all that is unforgiven in you,
Be released.
May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquilities.
May all that is unlived in you,
Blossom into a future,
Graced with love.
John O’Donohue, Benedictus
“Noise” in this image can stand for all the hassles which we encounter this day
For the mind that is silent, noise is as direct a spoke into the hub of silence as are birdsong, wind, and waves.
It requires nothing more than to meet noise with stillness and not commentary.
Martin Laird, A Sunlit Absence
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