Tag: Present moment

Sunday Quote: Meaning

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There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveller.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Comparing, rehearsing, regretting

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The effect of life in society is to complicate our existence,

making us forget who we really are,

by causing us to become obsessed

with what we are not

Chuang Tzu, 4th Century BC, Inner Chapters

Listen

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Wait awhile, close your eyes, let your breathing stop three seconds or so, listen to the inside silence in the womb of the world, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, re-recognize the bliss you forgot, the emptiness and essence and ecstasy of ever having been and ever to be the golden eternity. This is the lesson you forgot.

Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Sunday Quote: Empty

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Everything that seems empty

is full of the angels of God.

Hilary of Poitiers, 310 – 368 AD

Each moment is a new moment

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Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, ‘Can a person lay a new foundation every day?’

The old man said,

‘If they work hard, they can lay a new foundation at every moment.‘ 

From the sayings of the Desert Fathers. Abba Moses lived 330 – 405 AD

Sunday Quote: Ordinary

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A common man marvels at uncommon things.

A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Confucius