“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”
― The Lives of the Heart
― The Lives of the Heart
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
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“Tree
It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.
Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.
That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books--
Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.”
―
It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.
Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.
That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books--
Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.”
―
“Tenderness does not choose its own uses.
It goes out to everything equally,
circling rabbit and hawk.
Look: in the iron bucket,
a single nail, a single ruby -
all the heavens and hells.
They rattle in the heart and make one sound.”
― The Lives of the Heart
It goes out to everything equally,
circling rabbit and hawk.
Look: in the iron bucket,
a single nail, a single ruby -
all the heavens and hells.
They rattle in the heart and make one sound.”
― The Lives of the Heart
“we mistakenly spend our experience trying to get something instead of simply receiving that which is already and eternally given.”
― The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
― The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
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