I look;
Morning to night I am never done with looking.
Looking, I mean not just standing around,
but standing around
as though with your arms open.
Mary Oliver, Where does the Temple Begin, Where does it End?
Tag: Present moment
How to be at peace
How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
Eckhart Tolle, A new Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose
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Stilling the mind
The mind quiets down because we observe it
rather than getting lost in it
Charlotte Joko Beck
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Step by step
Those who serve life adapt to changes as they go along. Changes arise from the nature of time; those who know the nature of time do not have fixed ways. Therefore I say “Ways can be guides, but not fixed paths; names can be designated, but not fixed labels”.
Master Wen, Wen-Tzu, precise date unknown, c 5th century BC
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Not running after but staying in the here and now
Zen master Daowu visited the assembly of master Shitou.
Daowu asked, “What is the fundamental meaning of the teachings?”
Shitou said, “Not to attain, not to know”.
Daowu, Zen Master, China, 748 – 807
Sunday Quote: On the shortest day in the year
With life as short as a half taken breath,
don’t plant anything but love.
Rumi
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