We have the good fortune to be born as human beings..
Let us be joyous.
Dogen
Sunday Quote: Joyous
Tag: Meditation
Lightly
Think lightly of yourself
and deeply of the world.
Miyamoto Musashi, 1584 – 1645, Japanese swordsman and philosopher, author of The Book of Five Rings
From the heart
You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As is your desire, so is your intention.
As is your intention, so is your will.
As is your will, so is your deed
As your deed is, so is your destiny,
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Hindu Scriptures, 7th-6th century BCE.
Don’t identify with passing clouds
If there is no regarding of phenomena as “mine”
Then the self who suffers
is not constructed
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Thoughts
Each thought creates according to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893 – 1952
Not a straight line
The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
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