The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations. What you can do to a person, you can also do to a situation: make it into an enemy.
The implication is always: this should not be happening; I don’t want to be here; I don’t want to be doing this; I’m being treated unfairly. And the ego’s greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.
Eckhart Tolle
When we try to settle, what we might notice is unsettledness.
Rather than go into the topic, recognize the energy.
Give attention to places in the body that are non-agitated.
Use the body and breath to change the speed of the mind, to steady it.
Once settled, then dilemmas and unfinished business can be related to, with dispassion, compassion and detachment.
Ajahn Sucitto
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We try to be open to all possibilities, without turning them into expectations
Expectations are the greatest impediment to living
In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today
Seneca
Who cares about wealth and honour?
Even the poorest thing shines.
My miraculous power and spiritual activity:
drawing water and carrying wood.
Layman Pang, 8th Century lay Buddhist
Never rely on a second arrow. If you rely on a second arrow you will be careless with the first.
Every time you must be convinced that you have only one choice, and that you must hit your target with your one and only arrow.
Kenko-Khosi, 1283–1350, Japanese author and Buddhist monk, Essays in Idleness
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