Remember to keep a calm head in difficult times
[aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem]
Horace, Odes, book II, poem III, lines 1 – 2
difficult times
Tag: Mindfulness
The depth dimension
Developing good habits for a new month:
A practice is any act habitually entered into with our whole heart that takes us to the deeper place. Some of these practices, we might not think of as prayer and meditation: tending the roses, a long, slow walk to no place in particular, a quiet moment at day’s end, being vulnerable in the presence of that person in whose presence we’re taken to the deeper place, the pause between two lines of a poem.
There are these acts that reground us in the depth dimensions of our life that matter most; so if we’re faithful to our practice, our practice will be faithful to us.
James Finlay, Practice That Grounds Us in the Sustaining Love of God
Balance
A person who thinks all the time
has nothing to think about except thoughts,
so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusion.
Alan Watts
How we live
The value of a life
does not depend on
the place we occupy;
It depends on the way
we occupy that place.
attributed to Therese of Lisieux
How to resolve problems
Wait in the stillness,
until you get what you came for.
Byron Katie
Rare and fleeting
In all of the universe, throughout all of time,
no one else will be you,
doing this mountain of dishes on this random Tuesday ever again.
It is a sacred duty to open up to that rare and fleeting experience.
Brad Warner
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