Consciously or unconsciously, we avoid facing things as they are in themselves
and so we want God to open a door for us which is beyond…
(but) to find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves
Jiddu Krisnamurti
Tag: Mindfulness
Travelling too fast
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us
photo joseph Mischyshyn
Slowly
Smile,
breathe,
and go slowly.
Thich Nhat Hanh
O snail
climb Mount Fuji
but slowly slowly
Kobayashi Issa, 1763 – 1828, Japanese Buddhist priest and poet
Staying with the uncertainty
Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice
So tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear.
Hafiz
Sunday Quote: Not waiting for our life to start
Life itself must be grasped in the midst of its flow
D.T. Suzuki
Early Saturday morning thoughts
A rare bright and sunny morning here in Ireland. This poem gets close to the spacious feeling which the early sun stirs up inside:
Got up on a cool morning. Leaned out a window.
No cloud, no wind. Air that flowers held
for awhile. Some dove somewhere.
Been on probation most of my life. And
the rest of my life been condemned. So these moments
count for a lot — peace, you know.
Let the bucket of memory down into the well,
bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one
stirring, no plans. Just being there.
This is what the whole thing is about.
William Stafford, 1914 – 1993 Just Thinking
