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Carrying The Wounded Angel
We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we’re not doing anything, we’re wasting our time. But that’s not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. And this is what the world needs the most. We all need to train ourselves in our way of being, and that is the ground for all action. Our quality of being determines our quality of doing.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, in “The Art of Living”.
“So this question is really important, because discovery and understanding come through self-knowledge, through observing the ways of the mind. What you say of your neighbour, how you talk, how you walk, how you look at the skies, at the birds, how you treat people, how you cut a branch — all these things are important, because they act like mirrors that show you as you are and, if you are alert, you discover everything anew from moment to moment.”
J Krishnamurti
“…the general tacit assumption in thought is that it’s just telling you the way things are and that it’s not doing anything — that “you’ are inside there, deciding what to do with the information.
But you don’t decide what to do with the information.
