Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior.
You are beneath the thinker.
You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.
You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
Eckhart Tolle
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Tag: Present moment
The basic truth about happiness
“All is always now,” says T. S. Eliot.
This statement implies a profound insight: Not only is the now not in time; time is in the now.
When the future comes, it will be now, and any past event becomes now as we remember it. There is only one now. It cannot be multiplied; it simply is.
The now is the opposite of time.
In fact, this is Augustine’s definition: “Eternity is the now that does not pass away.”
A happiness anchored in the now is eternal.
David Steindl-Rast, A Basic Human Approach to Happiness
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Sunday Quote: Still heart
In the still heart that refuses nothing,
the world is twice born.
Jane Hirshfield
Beautiful (Saturday) morning instructions
1.
Japanese teacher says:
At first light, rise.
Don’t hover between
sleep and waking,
this makes you heavy,
puts a stone inside your heart.
The minute you drift back to shore,
anchor. Breathe.
Remember your deepest name.
2.
Sometimes objects stun me,
bamboo strainer, gray mug,
sitting exactly where
they were left.
They have not slept
or dreamt of lost faces.
I touch them carefully,
saying, tell me what you know.
3.
Cup of waves,
strawberry balanced
in a seashell.
In morning the water seems
clear to the bottom.
No fish blocks my view.
Naomi Shihab Nye, Breaking the Fast
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Monday morning miracles
The Lord has spread the delicate net of his presence across the world.
See how He gets under your skin, inside your bones.
If you can’t see Him while you’re alive,
don’t expect a special vision once you’re dead.
Lal Ded (Mother Lalla), 1320 – 1392, Kashmiri Hindu poet and mystic
Sunday Quote: Doorways
When experience is viewed in a certain way,
it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
Jon Kabat Zinn
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