Keep asking “What idea of self have I dreamed up today?
Zenkei Blanche Hartman,1926-2016, Soto Zen teacher
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Sunday Quote: Be fully present
If we live everything,
life will be faithful to us.
John O’Donohue
Patient
The monk who bakes bread
no longer believes in the measure-for-measure God of the recipe books,
has little faith, if any, in the predestined endings set forth by timers,
the finely sifted claims to inerrancy held by cups and spoons.
Blended to life, call his a leavened devotion to resurrection
appearing from within each cracked tomb of grain,
the hunger that presses his hands dawn after dawn,
deep into the just-risen flesh.
Cowl white as the flour he scoops, mixes,
forms pat pat into loaves shaped like naves,
it is his chest, filled with the invisible yeast of breath,
that knows by heart the patient kneading together of days,
how long love takes to rise.
Daniel Skach-Mills, American poet.
In front of you
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life.
The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.
Hung Tzu-Ch’eng, 1572-1620, Chinese Philosopher
This is where I stand
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand….
I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God.
David Whyte, Fire in the Earth
Remember
Joy is the happiness
that doesn’t depend on what happens
David Steindl-Rast
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