There’s always the intention of questioning,
which is – you say to each moment “who are you?”
And I find that a really helpful way to go through my minutes and hours and days as a human being:
not to have my first instinct be to assert something, but to have my first instinct be – to ask something.
Jane Hirschfeld
A bank holiday in Ireland to mark the start of Spring. Helpful in work-life balance
Peace is understood in the Christian tradition as tranquillitas ordinis, the quietness of order, the calm that comes with harmony.
And order is arranging things so that each gives to the other its proper place. Even God must do this. In the Jewish tradition it is said that, in order to create the world, God had to step back
David Steindl-Rast, osb., Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
Tao Te Ching, 16
The first day of Spring in the Celtic Calendar, the Feast of Imbolc.
A state of permanent joy, hidden at the very centre of consciousness, is the Eden to which the long journey of seeking leads. There, the mystics of all religions agree, we uncover our original goodness.
We don’t have to buy it; we don’t have to create it; we don’t have to pour it in; we don’t even have to be worthy of it. This native goodness is the essential core of human nature.
We are made, the scriptures of all religions assure us, in the image of God. Nothing can change that original goodness.
Whatever mistakes we have made in the past, whatever problems we may have in the present, in every one of us this ‘uncreated spark in the soul’ remains untouched, ever pure, ever perfect.
Even if we try with all our might to douse or hide it, it is always ready to set our personality ablaze with light.
Eknath Easwaran
In moments of darkness and pain
remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door
Spring will come again
Loy Ching-Yuen (1873 – 1960) Chinese Taoist tai chi master.
Good feelings, bad feelings – we’re never going to get away from them.
The whole teaching is to completely make peace with everything –
to be able to just be with anything, completely.
Soeng Hyang, 1948 – Buddhist teacher
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