if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive. - Eleonora Duse
that has never left for 20 years, finding peace, and beauty in everything, and nothing could ever take that away. just like the old proverb look at things as if a child would, and see everything new for the first time. i truly believe my eyes were opened up from day 1, and there still beaming hazel love.
live in the NOW. The past will only make you depressed, the future will make you anxious; but the now will put you at peace. Dont worry about what has been, you can not change that; so why bother morning over it. You can not predict the future, so why bother trying; it will only make anxiety ridden. When you live in the now, you can focus of yourself; you have no boundaries nor regrets. The now brings peace with in you and with out you. When you live in the now you are free from depression, you are free from anxiety, you a free to be ALIVE.
Instead of trying to figure out where sounds are coming from, acknowledge these sounds as objects. When you are aware of these sounds as objects, be aware of the mind that is knowing the sounds. What is that awareness aware of? It is aware of objects. You can stay on the side of awareness or see both the object and the knowing mind together.
—Sayadaw U Tejaniya,
