Lessons

In Sunday’s mailbox…

Many wonder about the next life because this life’s not enough, or so it seems. [Perhaps] this life’s not enough because many of us are not living it but thinking about it...Why are we afraid of death? Surely it is not because the process of dying is painful—because the process of living is infinitely more so. And we don’t fear living—at least, not as much as we fear dying. We are afraid to die because we are not ready. – Robert Pilpel. https://tricycle.org/magazine/between-eternities/

We really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience. It goes against the grain to stay present. These are the times when only gentleness and a sense of humor can give us the strength to settle down. – Pema Chödrön

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” – D.H. Lawrence, whose birthday was today, in 1885. His ashes are interred at the Lawrence ranch site, north of Taos, New Mexico.

Speaking of beauty, Yesterday, Saturday the 10th of September, was the 87th anniversary of the birth of poet Mary Oliver, in Maple Heights, Ohio (1935). She died January 17, 2019.

Even dewdrops fall. – Ryōkan