Let me fall if I must.
The one I will become will catch me
Baal Shem Tov, 1698 – 1760, Jewish mystic, regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism
Take the step
Tag: Mindfulness
A new resolution
Many of us have been running all our lives
Practice stopping
Thich Nhat Hanh
Just be ready
“You don’t have to
prove anything” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends“
Poet William Stafford died of a heart attack in August 1993, having written a poem that morning with these words…
A tiny splash
The human body, at peace with itself,
is a more precious thing than the rarest gem.
This life you must know as the tiny splash of a raindrop, a thing of beauty that disappears even as it comes into being.
Therefore set your goal, make use of every day and night to achieve it
Je Tsongkhapa, 1357–1419, influential Tibetan Buddhist monk,
Sunday Quote: Do not need to know
One can be too preoccupied with what is ending or too obsessed with what seems to be beginning. In either case one loses touch with the present and with its obscure but dynamic possibilities.
You do not need to know what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Completeness
The start of a New Year often gives rise to a restless energy, thoughts of needing to do better, to achieve more, to comparing our actual life with some better life, berating ourselves for perceived failures and shortcomings. Dogen reminds us to let go of this drama, these continually shifting ideas created by the mind, and rest in a sense of completeness
No creature ever falls short of its own completeness
Wherever it stands it does not fail to cover the ground.
Dogen
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