Don’t go back over what has passed
Nor yearn for what is yet to be
What has passed has been abandoned
And the future is not yet here
The state of arising here and now
see it as it is, with insight
The Buddha, Majjhima Nikaya, 131
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Settling, white dew
does not discriminate
each drop its home
Nishiyama Soin, 1605 – 1682, Japanese poet
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Existence will remain meaningless for you if you yourself do not penetrate into it with active love,
and if you do not in this way discover its meaning for yourself.
Everything is waiting to be hallowed by you.
Martin Buber
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Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else…What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
photo D.Sharon Pruitt
What is the hardest thing of all?
What seems to be the easiest: to use your eyes to see what lies in front of you
Goethe, The Heart of Listening
Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour.
Rumi
