I don’t want to get to the end of my life
and find that I have lived just the length of it.
I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman, 1948, American poet, essayist, and naturalist
Fully
Tag: Mindfulness
Sunday Quote: Constant practice
Your brain is not designed to make you happy.
That’s your job.
Tony Robbins
The centre of the circle
The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.
The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 29 (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Both, and…
The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. We don’t even have to call it suffering anymore; we don’t even have to call it discomfort. It’s simply coming to know the fieriness of fire, the wildness of wind, the turbulence of water, the upheaval of earth, as well as the warmth of fire, the coolness and smoothness of water, the gentleness of the breezes, and the goodness, solidness, and dependability of the earth. Nothing in its essence is one way or the other. The first noble truth also recognizes that we change like the weather, we ebb and flow like the tides, we wax and wane like the moon. We do that and there’s no reason to resist it
Pema Chodron, Awakening Loving-Kindness
Chosen
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment.
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday Quote: New
Every thought a present moment
Every moment a rebirth.
Master Shen Yeng, Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen Meditation
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