Tag: Present moment

Sunday Quote: Like children

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In time we are present only
by forgetting time.

Wendell Berry, 2007.IV

Quietly, quietly

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Suppose we did our work
like the snow, quietly, quietly.
leaving nothing out.

Wendell Berry,  Leavings. 

Every moment is profound

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Human life itself, the mystery of being thrust into the world by birth and swept out of it by death, is an imponderable puzzle, one that we can try to ignore but cannot escape. So much of what passes for ‘ordinary’ life is, when seen through different eyes, not ordinary at all, but full of potential for spiritual learning. To practice the koan of everyday life means to confront every situation as though it were a profound spiritual question.

       Lewis Richmond: Work as a Spiritual Practice. A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job. 

Renunciation

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Traditionally the season of Lent was associated with some form of simplification, which in Ireland became reduced to “giving up” something. The true meaning is in making space for the deeper realities in our lives and room to see what is happening.

The ground of renunciation is realizing that we already have exactly what we need,

that what we have already is good.

Every moment of time has enormous energy in it,

and we could connect with that.

Pema Chodron

Sunday Quote: Stop waiting

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Dance in the body you have.

Agnes de Mille, 1905 – 1993, American dancer and choreographer.

Complete

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The hardest thing I have learned and still struggle with

is that I don’t have to be finished 

to be whole

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening