The freshness of simple being, before all the “shoulds” and “oughts” take over
There is a small opening into the new day,
that closes the moment you begin your plans
David Whyte
Fresh eyes
Tag: Present moment
Sunday Quote: Letting judgments go
The only way to reach the truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision.
Osho
Perfect your love
Imperfections are part of the display of life. Joy and sorrow, birth and death are the dance of existence throughout which our awakened consciousness can shine. Yet we long for perfection. The perfect partner, house, job, boss, and spiritual teacher.….
Novelist Florida Scott Maxwell writes, “No matter how old a mother is, she looks at her middle-age children for signs of improvement. ” You are told that if you do enough therapy, work out at the gym, eat an especially healthy diet, watch documentaries on TV, manage your cholesterol, and meditate enough, you will become more perfect. Forget the tyranny of perfection. The point is not to perfect yourself. It is to perfect your love. Let your imperfections be an invitation to care.
Jack Kornfield, The Tyranny of Perfection
When you feel lost
When we feel lost we sometimes need to take time, to stand still, and let the outside world speak to us, rather than just listening to the voices in our own minds.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
David Wagoner, Lost [estract]
The reality
It’s quite illusory to hang on to a private, hidden, truer self apart from how you actually are,
even if therapy promotes this grand illusion and profits from it.
Instead, the realism of Heraclitus: You are how you are.
James Hillman
Without effort
The principles of all things arise without effort,
Water does not need to think to offer itself as a home for clear moonlight.
Sōgi 1421–1502, Japanese poet
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