Empty and Marvelous

Rank, knowledge, renown, Friendship, pleasure and means, All is but wind, but smoke: To say it better, all is nought. - Paul Pelisson

[terracemuse]

only my footsteps….

[terracemuse]

he fished for snow in the cold river.

[birdcagewalk]

[seamlessoo]

Her Light

[windingnumbers-unwind-deactivat]

Am I here, or am I there?

Or is the true self neither this nor that, neither here nor there, but something so varied and wandering that it is only when we give the rein to its wishes and let it take its way unimpeded that we are indeed ourselves? ― Virginia Woolf, from her essay Street Haunting

[windingnumbers-unwind-deactivat]

Everything we call real…

is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. ― Niels Bohr

[terracemuse]

autumn evening.

[terracemuse]

in the pines.

[julesofnature]

“In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are essential to comprehending the whole.”  ~ Maryanne Wolf

[terracemuse]

not one thing.

[gregorymevs]

Take Responsibility ‘If we want there to be peace in the world, then we have to take responsibility when our own hearts and minds harden and close. We have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That’s true spiritual warriorship. That’s the true practice of peace.’ - Pema Chodron, Practicing Peace. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHXhBQ4DW9k_-v8PNLzYchQdMjmrJ4dXlyGuso0/?igshid=1bdvmzq4o3s4k

[cobotis]

“The Master doesn’t try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough.”

—

Tao Te Ching ch.38.Transl.Stephen Mitchell- (via terracemuse)

日日事無別 In my daily life there are no other chores than 惟吾自偶諧 Those that happen to fall into my hands. 頭頭非取捨 Nothing I choose, nothing reject. 處處沒張乖 Nowhere is there ado, nowhere a slip. 朱紫誰爲號 I have no other emblems of my glory than 邱山絶塵埃 The mountains and hills without a spot of dust. 神通並妙用 My magical power and spiritual exercise consists in 運水及搬柴 Carrying water and gathering firewood.

~ P'ang Chü-shih

[sedraboc]

[wolfofodin1963-deactivated20201]

[justmeagain4]

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[satisfactiions]

[flyingiseasy-landingnotsomuch]

Orion

[justmeagain4]

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[terracemuse]

of early autumn.

[terracemuse]

autumn deepens