Just like a bead of water sits lightly on a lotus leaf,
or water on a red lily,
a wise person does not cling to
what is seen, heard or felt,
as they do not add on to the seen, the heard, or the felt.
The Buddha, Jara Sutta, 4.6
From what I gather in reading ancient texts, right up to the present, human beings have always been confronted by the same kinds of problems. I think that this world is not a realm that admits to a solution. That isn’t what this world is about. It’s a different kind of activity that we have here. We have to deal with good and evil continually. With joy and despair, with all the antinomies, all the opposites and contraries. That’s what our life is about. We can’t abdicate that.
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
If you set up feeling good
as what you have to be feeling,
then you are creating another thing
you are failing at.
Mark Epstein
unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
e.e. cummings
No one grows old by living
– only by losing interest in living
Marie Beynon Rey
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life
Your life situation exists in time;
Your life is now.
Your life situation is mind-stuff;
Your life is real.
Eckhart Tolle
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