Reminders for myself
best decision making advice I've ever received, courtesy of @marcreisen ... always try to make sure you're running towards something (courage), instead of away from something (fear)
Jason Yuanx.comThese bodies come to an end; But that vast embodied Self is ageless, fathomless, eternal. - Bhagavad Gita, 2.18
David Lynchx.comOur practice, whatever it is, must somehow include the problem. Contemplation is not the avoidance of the problem, but a daily merging with the problem, and finding some resolution. We quickly and humbly learn this lesson in contemplation: How we do anything is probably how we do everything.
Richard Rohr • Protecting Silence and Solitude
Here’s an image I share because I’m trying to look for images that I think can be so helpful. Metaphors can’t be explained, but they are like Jesus’ parables or koans; you can sense in a story or an image a realization that you can’t explain.
One of the images that I like from Meister Eckhart is when he says, “Imagine that you’re looking at a
... See more‘Whatever it is that knows our thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions is not itself a thought, feeling, sensation or perception. It is not itself an experience’. All experiences come and go, but whatever it is that is aware of them remains consistently present.