Healthy energies

The more you can free yourself from

your internalization of the gaze of others,

the more liberated you feel…[and]…the more you will unleash the healthy energies of the mind.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Under your Skin

Wasting time

If you say that getting money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time.

You’ll be doing things you don’t like in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.

Alan Watts

Where I am

Task: to be where I am.
Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd
role: I am still the place
where creation works on itself.

Tomas Tranströmer, 1931 – 2015, Swedish poet and psychologist, Guard Duty [extract]

Sunday Quote: Always setting out

Having no destination, I am never lost.

Ikkyuu, 1394-1481, Zen Buddhist monk and poet

Let it flow

Can’t just “let it go”?

That’s because emotions are not like rocks we can drop and throw.

They are more like drops of water that need to run through us.

So don’t let it go

Let it flow

Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog

Every moment

Wear gratitude like a cloak

and it will feed every corner of your life.

Rumi