Mindfulbalance

We’often look at ourselves as projects but a tree doesn’t question whether it is growing correctly or not. It simply simply unfolds according to its nature.

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much an extraordinary phenomenon of nature as are trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy.

You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

 Alan Watts

Sometimes we can try too hard, and letting go is a better response

When the archer shoots without caring about the prize,
His skill is at its greatest.
When he shoots for a brass buckle, he’s nervous.
When he shoots for a gold medal, he’s blind.
His skill hasn’t changed – its the prize that divides the mind.

Liezi, a Taoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, 5th Century BC Chinese philosopher, Chapter 2