Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself.
Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end
Eckhart Tolle
Leaning forward
Tag: Present moment
Very true
The mind starts to become quiet
when it really sees how untrue its narrative is.
Adyashanti
Don’t waste it
Since there is nothing but just this moment
The time-being
is all the time there is.
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist priest and writer, founder of the Soto school of Zen, Shōbōgenzō
Are you listening?
The next message that you need
is always right where you are
Ram Dass
Difficulty is a school
Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into it and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route of becoming.
All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size of houses and princesses beautiful as the day and talking birds and part-time serpents are distractions from the tough core of most of the stories, the struggle to survive against adversaries, to find your place in your world, and to come into your own.
Difficulty is always a school, though learning is optional.
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Don’t give your power away
I think of the past twenty years,
when I used to walk home quietly
from Kuo-ch’ing,
All the people in the Kuo-ch’ing monastery –
would say, “Hanshan is an idiot.”
“Am I really an idiot:” I reflected.
But my reflections failed to solve the question:
for I myself do not know who the self is,
So how can others know who I am?
Hanshan, 9th century, Chinese Buddhist/Taoist poet
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