No Mud, No Lotus

It’s Freya’s day and in the mailbox these notes:

We try to change events in order to avoid changing ourselves. . .We would prefer clear and easy answers, but questions offer the greatest potential for opening us to transformation. We must learn to stay. . .without answers, without conclusions, and some days without meaning. Those momentary experiences of empty space – between the in and out breath, between the spoken and written words, between the letters – that is when the Watercourse fills and enliven us. – after Fr. Richard Rohr

Mountains belong to the people who love them. – Dogen