Body, like a mountain,
Heart, like the sea
Mind, like the sky.
Dogen
photo of portmarnock strand by bonners2
Tag: Mindfulness
Always there
Out here it’s impossible to be lonely.
The land walking beside you is your oldest friend,
pleasantly silent, like already you’ve told the best stories
and each of you knows how much the other made up.
Naomi Shihab Nye, At the Seven Mile Ranch, Comstock, Texas
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.
Saying yes
I rarely let the word “no” escape
from my mouth
because it is plain to my soul
that God has shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes!”
to every luminous moment of existence.
Hafiz
Moments
There is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.
Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day
Where you are
I said to the wanting-creature inside me:
What is this river you want to cross?
Do you believe there is some place that will make the
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don’t go off somewhere else!
Kabir says this: just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.
Kabir
Sacred
When you treat your time as though you are a machine;
a doing machine;
you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
Philip Moffitt
