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Posts from the ‘Peace’ Category

Jan 15

Higher, Deeper, Peace

“Don’t just do something, sit there.” – Sharon Salzberg

“Think higher, feel deeper.”― Elie Wiesel

Take a break
Hard stop
Pullover
Often
Away from noise
Distractions
Confetti attention
Opinions
Assumptions
Knowing
Control
Out of the weeds
Reflection
Higher, deeper, inquiry
You can’t outrun you
Sit with love, kindness, compassion
The start and finish line of peace is within
Spilling into the world in between
Cast light

“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Dec 23

Deep Peace, Profound Wholeness

“You have the most beautiful things surrounding you. Give your mind the breather it deserves.”― Hiral Nagda

“When there is nothing to prove to anyone in the world, there is a deep peace and a profound wholeness which cannot be touched or pierced.”― Hiral Nagda

Expectations, assumptions, demands, control, ego, proving, counting, comparing, performance
Blinders to the beauty, abundance, blessings, contentment, joy, peace
Let go
Of all of it
Put it down
Drink in this day
Full presence
Sips and sprinkles
Drops and waves
Invite, allow, welcome
Newness poured into you
Nothing to do
But open, accept, receive
Mystery, serendipity, grace
Blinders off
Get out of your own way
Yield
Awe and wonder await your arrival, your participation
Deep peace, profound wholeness.

“Drink life one sip at a time. This moment is brand new. Let it pour its newness into you.”― Hiral Nagda

Dec 22

Gentle Break

“Birds chirping around you is a beautiful realisation that life in incredibly good. Let this sound be a gentle break in your routine.”― Hiral Nagda

“There’s nothing like
the fecund beauty of calmness.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

Carve space into this day
Step away
Break the busy routine
Field trip
Conservatory, art museum, park
30 minutes will do
Reset, retreat, refocus
In the pause, awareness
In the noticing, gratitude
In the slowing, peace
Beauty of calmness
Spilling into the world.

“As you slow down, you instantly enter into a brand new world.”― Hiral Nagda

Dec 17

Listening and Presence

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi

“Be here now.”― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

Quiet
Pause
Listening and presence
Be here now
Full attention.

“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.”― Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

Sep 29

“No Mud. No Lotus”-Buddha

“Practice several minutes of centering prayer. Remember that meditation is a not-doing. It is just letting go of small mind and merging with the stream of Divine Mind.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Stimulus and response
Creating space between, a gap, a pause
To contribute something meaningful rather than adding to the noise
Peace, grace, awe in this space
Cast light, kindness, joy
Narrow path, worth the trip.

“As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.” – Buddha

Sep 11

Peace Be with You, Pass It On

“Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

“When we catch ourselves thinking belittling, judging, cynical or snide thoughts, we are on the way to surrendering old habits of mind and planting the seeds of kind, encouraging thinking. Awareness of our thought habits and the intention to change them is an important aspect of cultivating kindness.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

Kindness
Empathy
Concern
Compassion
Companionship
Common good
Recklessly scatter seeds of love
Rain of peace
Sun of grace
Cast light in words and actions

“May I learn to consider every circumstance of my day, and every person that I meet, as a teacher. Free me from the pitfall of idealization and disappointment, receiving every teaching as a gift—especially those that are not pleasing.”― Joan Borysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

Aug 28

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Pause, Peace

“It’s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.” – Jack Benny

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

Offer peace, love, pardon, faith, hope, light, joy
Change the world
One person at a time
Pause, yield, pursue
Be kind

Aug 23

Temple of Your Senses

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”― Walt Whitman

“Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path.
Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame.
May anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
– John O’Donohue

Peace
Joy
Light
Love
Ebb and flow
In and out
Sacred gift
Heart of wonder
Follow the path

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Jun 16

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The way…peace

“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.”― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

“Peace is not something you wish for,
it is something you make, something you are, something you do,
and something you give away. ”― Robert Fulghum

Drop in the ocean.
To a ripple, to a wave.
May I be a drop of peace.
Do my part.
Calm in the storm.

“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”― Etty Hillesum

Jun 15

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Peace on Earth

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least
sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s
lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the
great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with
forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still
water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am
free.”

“Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy” – St. Francis

May we be conquered by peace.
Overwhelmed with kindness.
Overflowing with love.
May I do my part to make the world a better place.
Peace, love, pardon, faith, hope, light, joy.

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

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