Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become
enlightened.
When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah, A Still Forest Pool
Tag: Present moment
Sunday Quote: No roots
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts.
We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center.
So we lost our center and have to find it again.
Anais Nin
Growing resilience
Each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant.
The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.
Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.
Paulo Coelho, Brida
Always changing
High winds do not last all morning
Heavy rain does not last all day
Why is this? Such is Heaven and Earth!
If heaven and earth cannot make things eternal
Why do we think it happens for us?
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Sunday Quote: What myth
Thoreau, Campbell, and Euripides ask the same question for the same reason:
What myth is playing out now in your life?
What sacred, spiritual drama is in play in what appears to be secular life?
Thomas Moore
Through difficulties..
I know from my personal experience that out of pathos (great suffering) we come to know pothos (our sense of emerging self).
Through the portal of the intolerable, we deepen into soul.
Stephen Aizenstat, Dream Tending: Awakening to the Healing Power of Dreams
