So that’s how it would be (…) I’ll continue to flow endlessly through life… And nothing will get in my way.
Banana Yoshimoto, Amrita
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Listen with ears of tolerance. See through the eyes of compassion. Speak with the language of love.
Rumi
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
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VI
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Let's be simple and calm,
Like brooks and trees,
And God will love is by making
Beautiful things like trees and brooks for us,
And give us greenness in his spring,
And a river for us to go to when we end...
Alberto Caeiro
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Sunshine is green leaves
Green leaves are sunshine
Sunshine is not different from green leaves
Green leaves are not different from sunshine
The same is true of all forms and colours.
As soon as the sun of awareness shines, at very moment a great change takes place. Meditation lets the sun of awareness rise easily, so we can see more clearly. When we meditate, we seem to have two selves. One is the flowing river of thoughts and feelings, and the other is the sun of awareness that shines on them. Which is our own self? Which is true? Which is false? Which is good? Which is bad? Please calm down, my friend. Lay down your sharp sword of conceptual thinking. Don't be in such a hurry to your "self" in two. Both are self. Neither is true. Neither is false. They are both true and both false.
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Sun My Heart
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"Up down, same thing. And also different, too."
She entered her text and sat back again to wait. When the bell sounded, she read the incoming message and nodded. She thought for a moment, running her hand over her smooth head, and then she started typing again.
"When up looks up, up is down.
When down looks down, down is up.
Not-one, not-two. Not same.
Not different."
Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being"
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Exercise
First forget what time it is
for an hour
do it regularly every day
then forget what day of the week it is
do this regularly for a week
then forget what country you are in
and practice doing it in company
for a week
then do them together
for a week
with as few breaks as possible
follow these by forgetting how to add
or to subtract
it makes no difference
you can change them around
after a week
both will help you later
to forget how to count
forget how to count
starting with your own age
starting with how to count backward
starting with even numbers
starting with Roman numerals
starting with fractions of Roman numerals
starting with the old calendar
going on to the old alphabet
going on to the alphabet
until everything is continuous again
go on to forgetting elements
starting with water
proceeding to earth
rising in fire
forget fire
W.S.Merwin
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Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man
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I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream.
Tove Jansson
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First Yoga Lesson
“Be a lotus in the pond,” she said, “opening
slowly, no single energy tugging
against another but peacefully,
all together.”
I couldn’t even touch my toes.
“Feel your quadriceps stretching?” she asked.
Well, something was certainly stretching.
Standing impressively upright, she
raised one leg and placed it against
the other, then lifted her arms and
shook her hands like leaves. “Be a tree,” she said.
I lay on the floor, exhausted.
But to be a lotus in the pond
opening slowly, and very slowly rising–
that I could do.
Mary Oliver
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There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second way is to wash the dishes in order to wash the dishes.
Thich Naht Hanh
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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