Since the treasure does exist in this world,
consider no ruin empty of treasure….
If the inner eye has not been granted to you,
always think that treasure could be in anybody.
Rumi, The Mathnawi II: 2153-2155
All around
Tag: Present moment
Missing most of life
Once at a workshop, the instruction was to walk mindfully over to the lunchtime food across the room. In that short walk across the room, I noticed how automatically I get ahead of myself — how I lose track of these miraculous feet on the ground and miss the space in between. And I’m beginning to suspect that most of life is “in between“.
David Rynick, This Truth Never fails: A Zen memoir in Four Seasons
To give room
The pattern of things….is there from the start. Who you are is there from the beginning. Your task in life is to discern that pattern, listen for it, and give room for it to emerge. More commonly, though, we are all too busy trying to make things happen – to make ourselves happen. We may push and shove through most of a lifetime before realizing that another voice is whispering beneath the fret of our efforts and strategies.
Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Change Your Life
Letting go
Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go.
Please take an inventory of your life
There are things that you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom
Find the courage to let them go.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Take the step
A new month.
Because in the end you won’t remember the time spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Climb that goddamn mountain
Jack Kerouac
Sunday Quote: Know
Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
Naomi Shibab Nye, The Art of Disappearing [extract]
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