Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.
You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.
Only, who could have the courage to see it.
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Transfiguration
Tag: Present moment
Know how to be happy
I like this idea of over-borrowing, always demanding more from the present moment.
If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don’t need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don’t need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff. The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it…..Much of our modern way of life is permeated by mindless over-borrowing. The more we borrow, the more we lose. That’s why it’s critical that we wake up and see we don’t need to do that anymore. What’s already available in the here and now is plenty for us to be nourished, to be happy.
Thich Nhat Hahn
Aligned with nature
Pass through this brief life in accordance with nature…
Gladly…like an olive that ripens and falls…
grateful to the tree that it grew on.
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 4,48
Interesting
In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very interesting.
John Cage, quoted in Mark Epstein, Going on Being
Untroubled
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Becoming
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
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