The Present Moment.
quotes and thoughts on the present, and living in the small moments
The Present Moment.
quote by Russell Ackoff
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
“memory and desire, stirring“ hit the sentiments of the presence.
“You can’t force a plant to bloom. It has a cycle. You have to tend it and care for it and wait for the bloom to happen. If you don’t take care of it, it dies. The more experiences you have like this, the more you begin to understand your own cycles.“ — Ruth Asawa
The third time seeing this quote at the Asawa exhibit and each time the interpretation deepens. The quote is about patience, diligence, and the cyclical nature. Watching the sunrise and sunset also allow me to savor on the rhythm of cycles.
In Homegoing, One of Gyasi’s wisdom spoke to me: "If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” It’s about choices in life, the feeling of regret, but also about the sense of clarity. It speaks on moment of doing. How do you know if you feel a sense of clarity when doing? It draws again on paying atten... See more
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any per... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
the antidote to the present moment
i am in the process of curing a chronic inflammation in my ankle. I am developing a relationship to understand my ankle and my body further.
A thought came up in the pool: if the condition became chronic because what I did on the every day basis, I should have the opportunity to act different every day from now paying more attention to my body and
... See moreIn times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right. Yesterday the marriage may have ende
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