Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama, you know, expecting victory after victory, and you understand deeply that this is not paradise – we somehow embrace the notion that this vale of tears, that it’s perfectable – you’re not gonna get it all straight.
I found that things got a lot easier when I no longer expected to win….
You understand that, you abandon your masterpiece, and you sink into the real masterpiece…
Leonard Cohen
Suffering does not belong to awareness; it belongs only to the illusory separate self.
When a thought or feeling appears and we say, ‘This is my sadness,’ we have already misidentified awareness as a person who owns an experience.
But awareness itself is free of suffering – it is like the sky that remains untouched by the storm clouds passing through it.
To abide as awareness is to be free of suffering, not because suffering is denied, but because it is no longer claimed as ‘mine‘
Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware
I’m a big proponent of “busy is a decision.”
You decide what you want to do and the things that are important to you.
And you don’t find the time to do things – you make the time to do things. And if you aren’t doing them because you’re “too busy,” it’s likely not as much of a priority as what you’re actually doing.
Debbie Milman, radio show host and author
What would it be like
to awaken to a day devoted to gratitude
a day of thankfulness for what was
and yet will be?
Stephen Levine
When you are in darkness, feeling pitiful or alone,
remember you are blessed with a soul
that is more receptive to the Spirit
and closer to love, joy and peace
than you were when life seemed grand.
This is what “blessed are the poor in Spirit”
means.
Meister Eckhart
Violence is done to the soul when we are forced to live at a pace that is not our own, when we are held to standards that are not our own, when we are denied the right to rest in the rhythms of our own being.
Parker Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness
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