Tag: Mindfulness

Sunday quote: Letting life flow

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Let life live you for a while

instead of trying to make yourself live life

Alan Watts

Light and dark

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As one matures,
a greater tolerance of ambiguity
is essential both for growth 
and as a measure of respect for the autonomy of the mystery.
James Hollis, Tracking the Gods

Enough

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Our whole spiritual transformation

brings us to the point where we realize

that in our own being,

we are enough.

Ram Dass

False fear

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The mind creates a lot of the dramas in our lives, often making them more frightening than they actually are.

Most of us, in some way, struggle with fear — instinctually tensing against it or becoming overwhelmed by it. Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. While fear is a natural, intelligent emotion, when it goes into overdrive, we are in a trance that contracts our body, heart and mind. Our resistance to fear sustains this trance and perpetuates our suffering. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, its grip loosens, and we reconnect with our full aliveness, wisdom and love.

Tara Brach

We are more than what happens to us

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Our awareness of our depth of being is fleeting. Yet just because we close our eyes doesn’t mean the sun has disappeared. And just because we can’t keep the unquestionable fact of being alive in view doesn’t mean that the inherent vitality of life has disappeared. We are more than what happens to us. We are more than what we think or fear. The turbulence we encounter is very real, but underneath what happens to us is the inherent, unwavering fact of life filling us from within.

Mark Nepo, The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your Heart

Unchanging essence

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There is something, prior to heaven and earth,

Without form, without sound, all alone by itself.

It has the power to control all the changing things;

Yet it does not change itself through the course of the four seasons.

Fu Ta-shih, c 497 AD