Thisness

To live in this world

you must be able to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it

against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver

It’s all for nothing in the end but I say an unconditional Yes! to it all anyway.

There is no help in
changing your environment.
Whether at home or in the forest.
If you can do it in the forest,
Why not in the home?
Therefore, why change the environment?
Ramana Maharshi

It feels somehow safer to keep pretending to be someone small instead of being no one and everything.
Joan Tollifson

Meditation is all well and good but sometimes you just can’t beat a good nap.

How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.
Franz Kafka

I don’t think in terms of having experiences anymore. Things just happen. Rain is dripping softly. The heart is beating. There is breathing, in-out-in-out-in-out. There is quiet listening, openness…emptiness…nothing…Enlightenment? How lethal it is to attach a label. Then you become somebody. At the moment of labeling, aliveness freezes into a concept. ‘My enlightenment experience!’ To be alive, fully alive, means flowing without hindrance—a vulnerable flow of aliveness with no resistance… Without needing to think about ‘myself’—what I am, what I will be. Our experience mongering is a form of resistance in time.
Toni Packer