It is not a matter of looking for happiness
or trying to avoid suffering
but of going to the place beyond happiness or suffering.
Ajahn Chah
Tag: Present moment
A place to stand
The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that’s happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization
Ram Dass
A newly formed day
The paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin carried a notebook in which he had written, among other things, a morning prayer:
“Be pleased yet once again to come down
and breathe a soul into the newly formed, fragile film of matter
with which this day the world is to be freshly clothed.”
Might never happen
When we wake up in bed on Monday morning and think of the various hurdles we’ve got to jump that day, immediately we feel sad. Bored and bothered.
Whereas actually we’re just lying in bed.
Alan Watts
Thresholds
No threshold need be a threat, but rather an invitation and a promise. Whatever comes, the great sacrament of life will remain faithful to us, blessing us always with visible signs of invisible grace. We merely need to trust.
John O’Donohue, To bless the space between us
Simply sit
Sit in your room as in paradise;
put the whole world behind you and forget it;
like a skilled fisherman on the lookout for fish
keep a careful eye on your thoughts.
Simple, beautiful meditation instructions from The Brief Rule of Saint Romuald, c. 1006
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