The weekend allows us place the emphasis on being rather than doing. The mild autumn weather this year allows us do that in the sunshine and under the trees:
The dream of my life
Is to lie down by a slow river
And stare at the light in the trees –
To learn something by being nothing
A little while but the rich
Lens of attention
Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom
photo: Lehava activity 2013 Pikiwiki Israel
The more we connect with a bigger perspective,
the more we connect with energetic joy.
Pema Chödrön
Sun rising over Alps at dawn
The weekend can allow us get out into nature and into its pace, learning its balance and wisdom. It is a useful corrective to the speed which modern society – and workplaces – consider necessary, and to the importance which it places on passing trends:
The internal activity of analysis, speculation, memory, investigation, cross-referencing, decision-making, and self-evaluation can amount to a volume of overwhelming proportions. Then the experience of overload develops into one of exhaustion, or of a pressure in our lives that diminishes peace and joy… This is the loss of balance that we can rightly experience as being flooded.
It isn’t the world per se, nor is it that we are chronically unbalanced;
it’s just that the right relationship hasn’t been struck.
Ajahn Sucitto, Parami
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure
with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
photo of the Mourne mountains, County Down by ardfern
The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you?
You hold on to things, causing your confusion.
Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go.
If you know nature, you’ll know the Way. If you know the Way, you’ll know nature.
Ajahn Chah
photo Phil Champion
Imperfection is not our personal problem
– it is a natural part of existing.
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
photo wingchi poon
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