le bon mot du jour: alchemy

through love. all pain will turn to medicine.

- Jalaluddin Rumi

le bon mot du jour: where?

Where's the spirit that awakens you?
Where's the spirit that wants you to search, find out?
There's a passage in the Psalms,

"Yismach lev m'vakshei Hashem"

[Joyful are those who seek God, not those who found God.]


[ ... ]


Where are you, God? Where are you hiding?

So they tell the Hasidic story of the two kids who were playing hide and seek and one kid hid and then he started crying. So they said, "What's the matter?"

"No one's looking for me."

Now you know how God feels. We're not looking.

I don't know what God is, the being of God, but I know it's a shattering experience. It opens you to the world. It takes you out of your narcissistic ego trip and says, look, see the other. Show strength through compassion, through love, not through violence.


- Rabbi David Hartman

as presented in the transcript of
"Opening up Windows"
radio broadcast of "On Being" with
Krista Tippett

le bon mot du jour: yet

some processes take a remarkably long time before they get to critical mass. the pace of change can be almost glacial, yet

if it is change, it must have a pace and sooner or later, it must stop 'nearly happening' and start 'really happening.'

- jonathan cainer



image: broken pebbles, sculpture by a.goldsworthy

le bon mot du jour: open

"Nothing is true that forces me to exclude."

- Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960







photo made available for artistic consideration by: By farfallemeccaniche

le bon mot du jour: Al-Fattah

When we find ourselves confronted with a totally new view of ourselves, we may have to take a leap of faith into the unknown, which can feel like annihilation.


... Perhaps life's circumstances have opened you to a totally new view of yourself, your relationships, or your occupation. Usually, this is the result of either great love or great pain. Rather than fearing the opening, use the opportunity to find the key to the door that leads to your purpose in life.

- from "The Sufi Book of Life: 99 pathways of the heart for the modern dervish"
by Neil Douglas-Klotz

le bon mot du jour

where there is Great Love, there is always miracles.

- willa cather

le bon mot du jour: connected.

"An individual is a separate
entity without connection.
A person is an individual
connected."

- Swami Prajnanpad

le bon mot du jour: we can.

"if in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will
profit from it. this is
the most basic kind
of peace work."

- thich nhat hanh

le bon mot du jour: {yes}

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein

le bon mot du jour: courage

"Courage, you have to have courage to love somebody.
Because you risk everything, everything."

- Maya Angelou

le bon mot du jour: read while studying jungian archetypes - reconciling the anima

"Ideals are fragile.
Stars fall.
I can cut the ruby hidden
in a pebble
into an everlasting jewel."

le bon mot du jour: read while studying hawk medicine.

"The destiny of all humankind is to awaken from their spiritual amnesia and re-align with the original intention of their soul."

- Sayahda -

le bon mot du jour: bien-aimé, je t'aime tellement ça fait mal

No one gets to heaven
by following the rules
– or breaking them.
Heaven must burst forth from your breast.


IVAN M. GRANGER

le bon mot du jour. blessed impermanence

In pursuit of the world,
One gains more and more.

In pursuit of the Way, one gains less and less.

Loss upon loss until at last comes rest.

When nothing is done, nothing remains undone.

LAO TZU

from the Tao Te Ching

le bon mot du jour: from learning the lesson to living the lesson - or where i find myself. right. now.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect. It is painful to take that social mask off. If others say one thing, but do another, you are lying to yourself if you don't listen to their actions. But if you are truthful with yourself, you will save yourself a lot of emotional pain. Telling yourself the truth about it may hurt, but you don't need to be attached to the pain. Healing is on its way, and it's just a matter of time before things will be better for you.

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.


- from "The Four Agreements" by
Don Miguel Ruiz -

le bon mot du jour: beyond fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness.

Confess your hidden faults.

Approach what you find repulsive.

Help those you think you cannot help.

Anything you are attached to, let it go.

Go to places that scare you.

- Advice from her teacher to theTibetan Yogini

Machik Labrön -

le bon mot du jour: vision.

our real blessings often
appear to us in the shapes of
pains, losses, and disappointments;
but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them
in their proper figures.

- joseph addison [c.1672 - 1719], england -

le bon mot du jour: because the Universe has more breath than we do.

moine shaolin by isabel munoz

was reading by my familiar midnight light, "The Spiritual Practices of the Ninja" by Ross Heaven, and stumbled onto this expression of a universal truth that keeps coming before me. it's like the words ring true in my spirit, and still...i keep receiving the message until i can live the embodiment of their reality. for the ninja, a loss of meaning was one form of kuro [or suffering], and facing his shadow in an acceptance of this soul fatigue was essential to overcoming it and entering into a time of major breakthrough and life change.

When you are hopeless, give up hope.

When you are humilated, let go of pride and choose humility.

When you are disillusioned, de-illusion.

When you are holding on to what you know, let go and

surrender to what is about to become.

- Dina Glouberman-

le bon mot du jour.

[me] via text to biggity smalls:

"The ache is how we know we have a heart."

et de ce fait, le bon mot du jour.

"...falling is the pretext for the most continuous acension."

- Ranier Maria Rilke"