Tag: Present moment

Enough

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When life is ‘enough,’ we don’t need any more. What a good feeling it is when our days are enough. The world is enough. We don’t often let that feeling in. It’s a foreign feeling because we tend to live our lives feeling that they are not enough. But we can change that perception. Saying that this is life and I don’t need anything more is a wonderful statement of grace and power. If we don’t need any more, if we don’t need to control everything, we can let life unfold. …. We must remember that our power comes from knowing that everything is all right and everyone is unfolding exactly as they are supposed to

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What makes a calm mind

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Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained
by cultivating friendliness toward the happy,
 compassion for the unhappy,
delight in the virtuous,
and indifference toward the wicked.
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 

Mute angels

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We are touched by
fantastic things that seldom speak.
So be careful not to turn away the
mute angels who are waiting.

Mark Nepo, The Song Gives Birth to the Singer.

Drop into being

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The act of taking your seat in your own life, which could also be seen as taking a stand of a certain kind, on a regular basis, is in and of itself a profound expression of human intelligence. Ultimately it is a radical act of sanity and love —namely to stop all the doing that carries us through our moments without truly inhabiting them, and actually drop into being, even for one fleeting moment. That dropping in is the exceedingly simple, but at the same time, hugely radical act undergirding mindfulness as a meditation practice and as a way of being. It is easy to learn. It is easy to do. But it is also equally easy to forget to practice, even though this kind of dropping in takes literally no time at all, just remembering.

Jon Kabat Zinn, Meditation is Not what you Think

Sunday quote: Open to all

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Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities.  Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Osho

The sound of the eternal

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The images which arise out of the depths, be they the burning bush of biblical imagery, the complaint of the body, or the dream we dream tonight, link us to that throbbing, insistent hum which is the sound of the eternal. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination