The fall, the descent, and its subsequent humility can be seen as another form of blessing.
Jack Kornfield AFTERTHE ECSTASY,theLAUNDRY 'Honoring the Fall'
This is how a human being can change:
There's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves.
Suddenly, he wakes up, call it Grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he's no longer a worm.
He's the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy
that doesn't need
to devour.
RUMI 'The Worm's Waking' Coleman Barks version
“One must first of all concentrate one’s thoughts on an object. Once one’s mind achieves a state of concentration and the space between oneself and the object has disappeared, the essential nature of the object can be perceived. Then express it immediately. If one ponders it, it will vanish from the mind.”
MATSUO BASHO 'Learn From the Pine'
Contentment brings supreme happiness.
Patanjali trans.Bernard Bouanchaud THE ESSENCE OF YOGA, 'sutra 2.42'
An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
Anna Swir, Milosz and Nathan, trans. TALKING TO MY BODY 'Priceless Gifts'
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