Tag: Present moment

The best day

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday Quote: our fears

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering

is worse than the suffering itself.

Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

The final Freedom

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We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting.

Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is ‘essential’ and that nothing at all is ‘important.’

Helen M. Luke, 1904- 1995, Jungian therapist and writer

Everyday

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Life does not get in the way

It is the way

Rebecca Li, Chan meditation teacher

with nothing

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The Absolute works with nothing.

The workshop, the materials are what do not exist.

Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,

where something might be planted,

a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

Rumi

Stop fighting

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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past.

To come into the present is to stop the war.

Jack Kornfield