Tag: Present moment

Sunday Quote: Joyous

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We have the good fortune to be born as human beings..

Let us be joyous.

Dogen

Lightly

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Think lightly of yourself

and deeply of the world.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1584 – 1645, Japanese swordsman and philosopher, author of The Book of Five Rings

Don’t identify with passing clouds

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If there is no regarding of phenomena as “mine”

Then the self who suffers

is not constructed

Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism

Not a straight line

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The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

Where is our home

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Most of nature – plants and animals – have periods of rest. We find it hard.

All of our unhappiness comes from one thing only, which is the inability to sit quietly, in a room alone. Pascal

[Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.]

I will wait here in the fields
to see how well the rain
brings on the grass….

I will be standing in the woods
where the old trees
move only with the wind
and then with gravity.
In the stillness of the trees
I am at home. Don’t come with me.
You stay home too.

Wendell Berry 1934- American poet, environmental activist and farmer, Stay Home

For the good

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Albert Einstein once said that the most important question a human being could answer is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we are willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth. As soon as we begin to …..open to faith in a friendly universe, the proverbial path opens before us. The people, events and teachings we need are supplied. This is the action of grace.

Joan Borysenko, Fire in the Soul: A New Spirituality of Spiritual Optimism