You know that the flower bends
when the wind wants it to,
and you must become like that –
that is, filled with deep trust
Rilke, Early Journals
Trust
no matter how dark
No matter how dire the circumstances, we can have confidence in life’s flow and in our own deep seated goodness.
No matter how dark,
the hand always knows the way to the mouth.
Saying of the Idoma ethnic group, Nigeria.
Come and Go
Shifting the nervous system from fusion to observation.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal.
They are conditions of the human mind.
They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday Quote: Notice
We usually dont look,
we overlook
Alan Watts
Wounds
In Japan, there is an art to fixing broken pottery called kintsugi. The cracks are mended with a resin painted gold. The idea is that what is broken becomes more beautiful for having been broken.
In this way, the Japanese honor the broken rather than hiding it.
So often, we hide our wounds, our scars, our cracks. But what if they are the very openings through which we grow?
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
To be
Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is ‘try’. Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond the personality, with its addictions and obsessions. Don’t ask how, it cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you succeed.
What matters supremely is sincerity, earnestness; you must really have had surfeit of being the person you are, now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits. This steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success
Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT.
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