Tag: Present moment

Where contentment comes from

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Decisions,

not conditions,

determine what a person is

Viktor Frankl

Whole

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The hardest thing I’ve learned,

and still struggle with,

is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

What you see

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It is the beauty within us that makes it possible to recognize the beauty around us.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. 

Henry David Thoreau

The place we all seek

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Let go of that which is ahead of you,
let go of that which has already gone,
and let go of the in-between.

If you have a heart that takes hold nowhere
you arrive at the place beyond all suffering

Dhammapada, 348

The light of the sun

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The blue sky opens out farther and farther, the daily sense of failure goes away, the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.

Kabir

Sunday Quote: Stop chasing

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I have nothing to report my friends,

But if you wish to find meaning

Stop chasing after so many things

Ryōkan Taigu,  Zen Poet,  1758 – 1831