The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target — you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target — not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
Osho
photo taken in Dunmore West, Co Waterford.
No valid plans for the future can be made
by those who have no capacity for living now
Alan Watts
photo mattbuck
One way to express the crisis of our time is to say
that most of us have an address
but cannot be found there.
Henri Nouwen
Stepping out of the busyness,
stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else,
is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in your own Awakened Heart
O little forests, meekly
Touch the snow with low branches!
O covered stones, Hide the house of growth!
Secret vegetal words, Unlettered water,
Daily Zero.
Pray undistracted, Curled tree carved in steel –
Buried zenith!
Fire, turn inward
To your weak fort, To a burly infant spot,
A house of nothing.
O peace, bless this mad place:
Silence, love this growth.
O silence, golden zero, Unsetting sun
Love winter when the plant says nothing
Thomas Merton
photo lumpytrout
A certain brother went to Abba Moses in Scete,
and asked him for some good advice.
And the elder said to him:
“Go, sit in your room, and your room will teach you everything.”
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
I discovered that all of our problems stem from a single cause, – we do not know how to sit at ease in a room alone.
(J’ai découvert que tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose,
qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre)
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and Philosopher, 1623 – 1662, Pensees
photo bujar I gashi
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