Fairy tales are more than true
not because they tell us that dragons exist
but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten
G.K. Chesterson
Tag: Meditation
When we get silly thoughts
With the mind, you can apply inwardly the same attention. When your eyes are closed, you can listen to the inner voices that “speak” in the mind. They say “I am this…”I should not be like that”. You can use those voices for bringing you to the space between thoughts. Rather than making a big problem about the obsession and fears that go on in your mind, you can open your attention and see those obsessions and fears as mental conditions that come and go in space. This way, even an negative thought can take you to emptiness.
Ajahn Sumedho, The Mind and the Way
Finally seeing
Life is no passing memory of what has been
nor the remaining pages in a great book
waiting to be read.
It is the opening of eyes long closed.
Davids Whyte, The Opening of Eyes
Photo of Lake Leman from Nyon by Alexandra Lee
Underneath it all
When we use the term “basic goodness”,
we are talking about our inherent completeness.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Sunday quote: Not losing hope
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi
A troubled world
With again more news of violence and hatred….
Ultimately we have just one moral duty:
to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves more and more
and to reflect it towards others, and the more peace there is in us,
the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum, killed in Auschwitz in November 1943 aged 21.
photo lewis collard.com
