A flower falls, even though we love it;
a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
photo: pixie from he
Tag: Meditation
Conditions for Growth
The potential space between baby and mother, between child and family, between the individual and society and the world, depends on experience which leads to trust. It can be looked upon as sacred to the individual, in that it is here that the individual experiences creative living.
Winnicott, Playing and Reality
Releasing fixed identities
Being kind is a simple practice, but it is also a transforming practice,
because as we continue, the conceptual boundary between “us” and “them” begins to melt
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
In whatever circumstances
La joie réside au plus intime de l’âme; on peut aussi bien la posséder dans une obscure prison que dans un palais.
(Joy dwells in the deepest part of the soul; one can have it in an obscure prison just as much as in a palace)
St Therese of Lisieux
photo of the former prison in Annecy by Emmanuel Boutet
…even with contradictions
It is easy enough to see that all through our lives we are faced with the task of reconciling opposites
which, in logical thought, cannot be reconciled
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
photo: pjposullivan
Limits to our thought
For there is a boundary to looking.
And the world that is looked at so deeply
wants to flourish in love.
Work for the eye is done, now
go and do heart-work
on all the images imprisoned within you.
Rilke
photo llias81
