Might try this for a while…
Let life live you for a while
instead of trying to make yourself live life
Alan Watts
Doing and non-doing
Tag: Meditation
happening in you
Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is here now, this very moment — in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart – whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it.
Osho
products of the imagination
The concept of beginning and ending is time, produced by thought.
Can we see, right now, that beginning and end, getting somewhere, being somebody, wanting to get the something I lack, are all products of the imagination.
As long as this isn’t clear, this bodymind remains tied up in knots. Can we see that a thought is always away from this present moment, where time does not exist?
Toni Parker, The Wonder of Presence.
Harmless
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.
Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring.
A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
Byron Katie
who are you
There’s always the intention of questioning,
which is – you say to each moment “who are you?”
And I find that a really helpful way to go through my minutes and hours and days as a human being:
not to have my first instinct be to assert something, but to have my first instinct be – to ask something.
Jane Hirschfeld
Calm comes from balance
A bank holiday in Ireland to mark the start of Spring. Helpful in work-life balance
Peace is understood in the Christian tradition as tranquillitas ordinis, the quietness of order, the calm that comes with harmony.
And order is arranging things so that each gives to the other its proper place. Even God must do this. In the Jewish tradition it is said that, in order to create the world, God had to step back
David Steindl-Rast, osb., Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
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