Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
Estragon: He could dance first and think afterwards….
Vladimir: Would that be possible?
Pozzo: By all means…. It’s the natural order.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
The natural order
Tag: Mindfulness
Sunday Quote: tensed
The greatest peril of misplaced worry
is that in keeping us constantly tensed against an imagined catastrophe,
it prevents us from fully living.
Seneca
another prayer for these times
O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you. I cannot do it alone.
In me it is dark, but with you there is light.
I am lonely, but you do not desert me.
My courage fails me, but with you there is help.
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience.
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor imprisoned and executed by Nazis.
Stay open and quiet
Don’t call it a way; it is more a kind of skill.
It is not even that.
Stay open and quiet, that is all.
What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
Sri Nisargadatta, 1897 – 1981 Indian non-dualist teacher
Slow down
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.
Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are travelling for
Louis L’Amour, Western author
Keep the mind high
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty.
No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self, which is poetry.
Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
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