My immediate response to most situations is with reactions of defensiveness, control and analysis.
I am better at calculating than contemplating.
Lets admit that we all start there
The false self seems to have the “first gaze” at almost everything
Richard Rohr
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Krishnamurti
Another Atlantic storm passed over the country overnight, with strong winds and heavy rain. After the winds the stirring becomes quiet.
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me, like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
Then what is afraid of me comes
and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves it.
It sings, and I hear its song.
Wendell Berry
We either make ourselves happy or miserable.
The amount of work is the same
Carlos Castaneda
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more.
Your desire can never be satisfied.
But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself “Oh Yes, I already have everything I need”
The Dalai Lama
Let our meditation be like the earth,
for then satisfying and unsatisfying contacts with the world through the senses
will not invade the mind.
The Buddha
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