Autumn light
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
B. K. S. Iyengar
Mindfulness
Moths in the meadow on a breezy morning
All beings are encompassed within one all-encompassing great energy: So I understood from the coolness of this morning’s passing breeze.
~ Mumon Ekai
Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.
~ Arthur Dobrin
(Apple blossoms.)
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
~ Mother Theresa
Don’t disregard your life. It is too precious. This moment, right now, is the only life you will ever have. You can’t store it up for the ideal time. When you walk, walk with your whole body and mind joining the floor. Place your eyes in the soles of your feet, walking as if the floor were a dear friend. This is intimacy with all things, where the whole world is self, where there is no ‘outside’ or other.
~ Pat Phelan
The first drops of rain always bring a smile on our faces. The smell of wet soil, the damp grass, and the slosh of puddles under our feet makes us want to dance with wanton joy. Rains make a heart go romantic. Ever danced in the rain? The feeling is inexplicably beautiful. Hold your sweetheart’s hand and walk in the rain while the clouds play cupid.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and now.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Be not the slave of your own past —
plunge into the sublime seas,
dive deep, and swim far,
so you shall come back
with self-respect,
with new power,
with an advanced experience,
that shall explain
and overlook
the old.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
Of an endless past.
Listen: you’ve heard everything.~ Shinkichi Takahashi, Zen Poems of China and Japan, Lucien Stryk, p. 125
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.
~ Pema Chödrön
Bountiful Healing 