What do I know
But this: it is heaven itself to take what is given,
to see what is plain; what the sun lights up willingly;
for example – I think this
as I reach down, not to pick but merely to touch – the suitability of the field for the daisies, and the daisies for the field.
Mary Oliver, Daisies [extract]
Very grey these days in Ireland, not quite Summer weather….
When we are willing to be intimate with what actually is here now,
to look directly at all our experience,
we might recognize that this is our life
however different from our thoughts and ideas about it
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Abbot of the Village Zendo, Soto Zen tradition, New York
The Buddhist viewpoint has consistently demonstrated [that]
it is the perspective of the sufferer that determines
whether a given experience perpetuates suffering
or is a vehicle for awakening
Mark Epstein
See and realize
that this world
is not permanent.
Neither late nor early flowers
will remain.
Ryokan
The first day of a new season in the old Celtic calendar
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we humans know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
We don’t really hear what people say,
We imagine what they mean
Byron Katie
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