Keep your thoughts and feelings steady, and your breathing (qi) relaxed and even.
心平气和
Heart-mind calm,
breath harmonious
Common Chinese saying
Sunday Quote: balance
Useless
A long weekend. To waste time well is a recovery of our humanity from the tyranny of constant productivity
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon
in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976, quoted in Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life worth Living
Every opportunity
If we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word “opportunity”, we see hidden beauty shining from below, which is the Roman god Portunus, patron of harbours.
Seen in this light
every new circumstance is like sailing into a strange and distant port,
which may offer a haven, if we choose to take refuge.
Phil Cousineau, The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and their Origins
Let everything go
The true purpose is to see things as they are,
to observe things as they are,
and to let everything go as it goes.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
See it as energy
If we try to get rid of a problem, then we are making it into something solid, something real. That is the mistake.
Instead, if we look directly at the feeling, at its energy, we can see its true nature. The problem itself dissolves into wisdom.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in conversation with Helen Tworkov
Feeling our way
It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…
Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look.
It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.
Martha Beck
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