Bedankt Frieda!

SMALL  TALK

  

 @Glastomichelle

A breezy (gale force) start to the day

 on Glastonbury Tor today.

Your ability 

to feel other people's pain 

doesn't mean

 it’s your responsibility 

to fix it.

- Tiny Buddha -

 

 Learn to sit back 

and observe. 

Not everything 

needs a reaction.

@gregcatarino1

When all the world is blooming, 

sweet buds upon the tree,

 come along to my house, 

and we'll have a cup of tea! 

- Ann Moore, Tea For Thought -

 

You’ll stop worrying 

what people think about you 

when you realize 

how seldom they do.

- David Foster Wallace -

Listen to the mustn’ts, child.

 Listen to the don’ts.

 Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts.

 Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...

 Anything can happen, child. 

Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein -

 

Sylvain Tesson 

 

 

 The story doesn’t change when we pretend it was all an illusion. 

The story doesn’t change when we get addicted to transcendence and float above it. 

 The story doesn’t change when we feign forgiveness and resolution. 

The story doesn’t change when we confuse dissociation with expansion. 

The story doesn’t change when we tell ourselves that there are no victims. 

 The story changes when we own our pain. 

The story changes when we are truly seen in our suffering.

 The story changes when we work it through to the lessons at its core.

 The story changes when we heal our heart. 

We are made of story- there’s no shame in that. 

The illusion is illusion, itself. 

Either we work through our story, or our story will work through us.

- Jeff Brown -

No One’s Life Is 100% Happy All The Time. 

We Need To Stop Judging Others.

 @Glastomichelle

The light managed to break through the very dark clouds this morning just for a moment. 

Then I got very wet!

Everything about him was old 

except his eyes 

and they were the same color as the sea 

and were cheerful and undefeated.

- E. Hemingway - 

The Old Man and the Sea, 1952

Jeff Brown

 

 

 

The only way to let go of judgement

 is to see through it,

 to see that none of it is really true. 

Then you’re in a place of great creativity.

- Adyashanti -

@ProfFeynman

I stand at the seashore, alone, and start to think. 

There are the rushing waves mountains of molecules each stupidly minding its own business trillions apart yet forming white surf in unison. 

 Ages on ages before any eyes could see year after year thunderously pounding the shore as now.

 For whom, for what? 

On a dead planet with no life to entertain. 

 Never at rest tortured by energy wasted prodigiously by the sun poured into space. 

A mite makes the sea roar. 

 Deep in the sea all molecules repeat the patterns of one another till complex new ones are formed.

 They make others like themselves and a new dance starts. 

 Growing in size and complexity living things masses of atoms DNA, protein dancing a pattern ever more intricate. 

 Out of the cradle onto dry land here it is standing: atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity.

Stands at the sea, wonders at wondering: I a universe of atoms an atom in the universe.