Practice sitting like a mountain sometime,
allowing all images and feelings and sensations to come and go as you reside in steadfastness, watching it all arise and pass away.
This is an image of equanimity
We feel everything, without exception, and we relate to it through our own strength of awareness, not through habitual reactions
Sharon Salzberg
The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for
regular excursions into enchantment.
It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought.
Thomas Moore
Decisions,
not conditions,
determine what a person is
Viktor Frankl
The hardest thing I’ve learned,
and still struggle with,
is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
From the great Bodhidharma, Chan Buddhism, 5th or 6th century CE. Delusion is one of the challenges of the mind in Buddhism. Its opposite is wisdom, which sees reality as it actually is: subject to change in ways that we can never quite anticipate.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
It is the beauty within us that makes it possible to recognize the beauty around us.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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