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This is a wonderful day.

I’ve never seen this one before

Maya Angelou

Sunday Quote: Peace

You can manage your mind in three primary ways:

Let be

Let go

Let in

Rick Hanson

For everything there is a season

The Autumn Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.

If you feel like you’re running out of time, read this: You’re not. …there isn’t a designated time in life for anything, and although it’s hard not to, your timeline shouldn’t be compared to the person standing next to you. Just because the timing was right for them, doesn’t mean it would be right for you. There is enough happiness, love, and opportunity to go round, no matter when it happens. Your life shouldn’t feel like a race, because it isn’t one. Where there are fast days, there should be slow days that follow, days where you can reflect and recalibrate because everything you are going through right now is preparing you for the next chapter, every challenge directly informing the decisions that you’re about to make for yourself.

Being present will show you what is worth taking with you along the way as you navigate life because the destination won’t bring you peace unless you let the journey teach you who you are, and just how much capacity you have to experience change, both within yourself and in the world. You aren’t running out of time, so don’t be afraid to slow down. Things fall into place when we create space for them to.

Seyda Noir

The art of the soul

All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense. Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happens to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost. This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience.

This is probably why the soul never surfaces fully. The intimacy and tenderness of its light would blind us. We continue in our days to wander between the shadowing and the brightening, while all the time a more subtle brightness sustains us. If we could but realize the sureness around us, we would be much more courageous in our lives. The frames of anxiety that keep us caged would dissolve. We would live the life we love and in that way, day by day, free our future from the weight of regret.

John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

A simple mind

Awareness is completely simple; we don’t have to add anything to it or change it. It is unassuming or unpretentious; Awareness is not a thing, to be affected by this or that. When we live from pure awareness, we are not affected by our past, our present, or our future. Because awareness has nothing it can pretend to, it’s humble. It is lowly. Simple. Practice is about developing or uncovering a simple mind.

Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special, Living Zen

Sunday Quote: The process, not the content

What must be increased is the ability to observe.

What we observe is always secondary

Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen