Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
“Water is versatile. It can be big and powerful, it can quench thirst, it can be healing, it can drown us. It finds its own level, always. That is, water is always seeking balance and has a place it has to go. It can be scarce, it is necessary. We’re utterly, devastatingly dependent on it. It’s beautiful and tragic and it feeds us sometimes. When w
... See moreadrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Whatever is yet to come will necessarily be an organic development of what is already happening now. Therefore, the best way to be prepared for the future is to pay attention to the whole of your experience in the now, especially its subtle dimensions, like the little intuitive feeling that a certain situation is not quite right. (I would suggest t
... See moreChristopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
The art of living . . . is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past . . . on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. —Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
I suppose what I’m trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you can’t seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See more
I suppose what I’m trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you can’t seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See more