QotD: Gravity and Stillness

Posts from This Journal “quiet” Tag

• Poem OTD: Tiny Frightening Requests

  SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of…

• QotD: Listening isn't easy

  To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…

• QotD: Wash the Sacred Dishes

  Wash the dishes relaxingly, as though each bowl is an object of contemplation. Consider each bowl as sacred. Follow your breath to prevent your…

• QotD: Lao Tzu on Being

  There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide a the center of your being. For the more you leave it the less you learn.…

• QotD: Relaxation-->Concentration-->Mindfulness

  Having a relaxed mind is very useful in meditation. Relaxation is the foundation of deep concentration. When the mind is relaxed, it becomes more…

• Poem: Ask Me by William Stafford

  Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my…

• QotD: Yoga

  Yoga is an internal practice, the rest is just a circus. ---Guruji

• QotD: A Suspension of Life

  There’s a big difference between riding a coal train through Kansas and Nebraska and trying to write. Writing is a suspension of life. I…

• QotD: on Waiting

  I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the…