Maybe the meaning of life is just to see the beauty in the ordinary.
To love the things that don’t last, because nothing does.
To stand in the rain and feel it.
To be alive in the world.
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
We often give the things that bother us more weight than they deserve, forgetting that all things arise and pass away
The great beings see with their wisdom eye
all things like reflections of forms
They do not become stuck in the mire
of so-called objects.
Arya Nagarjuna, 2nd-century Indian Buddhist philosopher, Sixty Verses of Reasoning
Things do not always go according to plan:
Life does not owe us a smooth ride.
Our plans will be disrupted, and our expectations will often go unmet.
The question is not why this happens, but how we respond.
David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change… and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
Never forget that your days are blessed
You may know how to profit by them or you may not,
but they are blessed
Nadia Boulanger, 1887 – 1979, French music conductor and composer
You aren’t your thoughts – you’re the sky holding them.
Suffering starts when you become the weather.
Steven Hayes, A Liberated Mind
The ego’s habit is to try to control things, to make them secure.
But life isn’t like that.
The more we try to grip, the more suffering we create.
Mindfulness allows us to open to the way things are, to respond wisely rather than react blindly.
Ajahn Sucitto, Retreat talk
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