Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new.
Thus life is always new.
Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Tag: Present moment
Patiently we practice every day
Nothing which is ready-to-hand or present-to-hand within the world functions…. in the face of which anxiety is anxious.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Untouched
We are made – the scriptures of all religions assure us = in the image of God. Nothing can change that original goodness. Whatever mistakes we have made in the past, whatever problems we may have in the present, in every one of us this “uncreated spark in the soul” remains untouched, ever pure, ever perfect. Even if we try with all our might to douse or hide it, it is always ready to set our personality ablaze with light.
Eknath Easwaran, 1910–1999, Indian born spiritual teacher and author.
Empty Time
Finding yourself doesn’t require that you fly to Tibet, join a convent, or build a meditation room.
Just consistently keep a minimal commitment to empty time.
Martha Beck
Seeds of wakefulness
Every time you’re willing to acknowledge your thoughts, let them go, and come back to the freshness of the present moment, you’re sowing seeds of wakefulness in your unconscious. After a while what comes up is a more wakeful, more open thought. You’re conditioning yourself toward openness rather than sleepiness. You might find yourself caught, but you can extricate yourself by how you use your mind, how you actually are willing to come back just to nowness, the immediacy of the moment. Every time you’re willing to do that, you’re sowing seeds for your own future, cultivating this innate fundamental wakefulness by aspiring to let go of the habitual way you proceed and to do something fresh.
Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness
Delusions
All delusions begin in the mind.
All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
Adyashanti
