Thursday, May 17, 2012

Stretchmarks in the Void

Compassion is who you are when you're not trying to be anyone else.

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You are not this aging body or this mind full of yesterdays. You are the Beauty that is never one moment old.

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At any moment, wherever you are, just rest awareness in the very agitation, the very distraction that is happening, without trying to place your attention anywhere else. This is instant freedom.

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There is only one safe place in the entire world: a heart surrendered to its song.

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I don't know anything. What a relief! To abandon certainty is the beginning of freedom. To known nothing is the beginning of prayer.

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Through the effortless magic of agreeing to be uncertain, transform uncertainty into possibility.

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The greatest wealth is to love the little things in your own back yard, just because they are there. Enter the kingdom of little things. Find something very small and hold it in your hand. It may be a weed or a pebble. Cherish the mere Thingness of this little thing.

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Being truly present to our children is greater than any gift in a box under the tree. Even if we have nothing else to give, we can give Christmas presence.

* Christ was born in human flesh just to show us that every atom of this body is sacred. The kingdom of God is here on earth as we consent to radiate exactly who we are.

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