Nurture
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
A quote by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Through the Body We Recover Our Spirit
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“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.... See more
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.... See more
A quote from The Parent's Tao Te Ching
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
―
Iris Murdoch
―
Iris Murdoch
A quote from Existentialists and Mystics
Our traditions are like treasure chests filled with scriptures, songs, and stories—some empower us to cast judgment and others shimmer with the call to love above all.
Just a moment...
Thomas Merton once said that if we want to study Buddhism, the answer is not to read a lot of books on Buddhism; it’s to meet a holy Buddhist instead.