“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” ~ Pema Chödrön
Author: jaysen
aware, rational, engaged citizen…
saw a bumper sticker that stated:”it’s better to be a conspiracy theorist than a conformist fool.”
boo.
this is unaware of the possible middle option:
“it’s better to be an aware, rational and engaged citizen.”
~j
#TheMiddleWay #rational #engaged #aware
be a lamp…
“Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” ~ Jalaludin Rumi
love is never lost…
how shall we proceed?
a focus on process is more important than a focus on outcome. how we do things now, creates the future.
how shall we proceed? with presence, with patience, with kindness and tenderness? with compassion and generosity, with peacefulness, nonaggression and nonviolence?
will we live with and move forward with the embodiment of all we hold as principled, ethical and moral, allowing the light of love to lead the way?
or will we live in the heat of our passion and emotion? reacting rather than acting? responding to that impulse to right the wrong or perceived wrong in this moment right away without awareness, thoughtfulness, and skill?
it’s an important question we have available to us and can ask ourselves. our answer will not only affect ourselves, those close to us, and our immediate environment, but may very well have a ripple effect influencing the entire world through generations to come.
~j
fall in love with life…
transcendence…
let go and flow…
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. Tie no weights to your ankles.”
~ C. JoyBell
what would love do now?
meditate…
how we speak and how we act begins in the heart and mind. Thich Nhat Hanh speaks of watering the seeds of kindness and nonharming within our heart and mind. meditation is watering those seeds.
there is Native American story of feeding the wolves. we have within us the bad wolf filled with arrogance, envy, anger, greed, false pride, bitterness. and we also have the good wolf filled with empathy, kindness, compassion, generosity, joy, peace, and love. they are battling. which one will win? the one you feed.
meditation is feeding the good wolf.
#meditate
