Repeatedly turn the mind toward what is known:
All things are of the nature to change.
Our only inheritance is impermanence and the truth that conditions rise and fall.
Jessica Angima, Kenyan American artist and meditation teacher
Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
Eckhart Tolle
Look at love – how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit – how it fuses with earth
giving it new life.
Why are you so busy with this or that, or good or bad –
pay attention to how things blend.
Why talk about all the known and the unknown –
see how the unknown merges into the known
Rumi, Look at Love [extract]
What matters is the good we did
Not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai, 1183 – 1260, Chinese Chan master
Stephen Mitchell translation
The ship is always off course.
Anybody who sails knows that.
Sailing is being off course and correcting.
This gives a sense of what life is about.
Michael Meade, 1944 – American Author
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