The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment.
It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought.
Thomas Moore
Tag: Mindfulness
Movements of blossoming
I believe deeply that the seasons have a great deal of spiritual wisdom to offer us if we make space to listen. They teach us of the cycles and seasons of the earth and of our own lives. We are invited into the movements of blossoming, fullness, letting go, and rest, over and over again. Just like the lunar cycles of the moon’s waxing and waning, so too does the body of the earth call us into this healing rhythm. As the northern hemisphere enters the season of blossoming we are called to tend the places of our lives that still long for winter’s stillness as well as those places ready to burst forth into the world in a profusion of color. It takes time to see and listen. Around us the world is exploding in a celebration of new life, and we may miss much of it in our seriousness to get the important things of life done.
Christine Valters Paintner, Abbey of the Arts
Here
When quiet and still,
we rediscover that regardless of where we search,
life is never someplace else.
Mark Nepo, The One Life We’re Given
Sunday Quote: If you make space
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
Celebrate
Spring and all its flowers now
joyously break their vow of silence.
It is time for
celebration, not for
lying low.
Hafiz
The Elephant already at home
Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower,
But is already present
In relaxation and letting go.
Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do.
As soon as you relax this grasping,
there is space – open, inviting and comfortable.
So make use of it. Everything is already yours.
Search no more.
Don’t go into the inextricable jungle
looking for the elephant who is already quietly at home.
Lama Gendun Rinpoche, Happiness
