Many of us have been running all our lives. We have the feeling that we need to run – into the future, away from the past, out from wherever we are.
In truth, we don’t need to go anywhere.
We just need to sit down and look deeply to discover that the whole cosmos is right here within us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I would like to live
Like a river flows.
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
John O Donohue, Irish poet and author, Fluent
Might try this for a while…
Let life live you for a while
instead of trying to make yourself live life
Alan Watts
Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is here now, this very moment — in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart – whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it.
Osho
The concept of beginning and ending is time, produced by thought.
Can we see, right now, that beginning and end, getting somewhere, being somebody, wanting to get the something I lack, are all products of the imagination.
As long as this isn’t clear, this bodymind remains tied up in knots. Can we see that a thought is always away from this present moment, where time does not exist?
Toni Parker, The Wonder of Presence.
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.
Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring.
A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
Byron Katie
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