When we release that striving
for somewhere else and something else,
we come home.
Karen Maezen Miller
Sunday quote: home
Tag: Present moment
Self care
A long weekend in Ireland
I live by the truth that “No” is a complete sentence.
I rest as a spiritual act.
Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Float
We could try this in this new month
We spend so much energy trying to control the small things: This poem invites us to stop bracing and asks: what if you trusted that your own letting go is no different? Maybe the best approach is a lightness of touch.
Simply trust
Do not the cherry blossom petals gently float down
just like that?
Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828
Change
The problem with life is that it flows and is not graspable.
The beauty of life is that it runs and does not stop.
Joan Chittister, There is a Season
Whats before us
We are so achievement-oriented that
we often surge right by the true value of relating to what’s before us,
because we think that accomplishing things will complete us,
when it is experiencing life that will.
Mark Nepo
a rainbow
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.
Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language.
But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
– Maya Angelou
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