One of the most important lessons in balance which we have to learn, and one of the central teachings in the Bhagavad Gita: the way of Inaction-in-Action.
You can’t catch the wild horse by running,
but nobody who is not running will catch the wild horse.
Sufi Proverb
A new month….
We can spend lots of our time and energy trying to predict or control what the future will bring. This doesn’t usually serve us. In truth, we don’t need to know what the future will bring. We just need to be right in this moment, and if we touch it deeply, mind and body united, we will find we have all that we need to meet the present.
Kaira Jewel Lingo, Come Home To Yourself
I am trying to teach my mind
to bear the long, slow growth
of the fields, and to sing
of its passing while it waits.
William Berry, From the Crest
with thanks to David Kanigan, Thrive blog
No matter how dark
The hand always knows the way to the mouth
Nigerian Proverb
Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Thoreau, Walden
You must unlearn the habit of being someone else or nothing at all, of imitating the voices of others and mistaking the faces of others for your own.
One thing is given to man which makes him into a god, which reminds him that he is a god: to know destiny.
When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…
Hermann Hesse, If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics
