Adjusting the sails

 

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

 

No puedo cambiar la dirección del viento, pero sí ajustar mis velas para llegar siempre a mi destino.

James Dean

Logic vs Imagination

 

Logic will take you from A to B. The imagination will take you anywhere.

 

La lógica te llevará desde A hasta B. La imaginación te llevará a cualquier parte.

Albert Einstein

Becoming Beauty Itself

 Let the beauty you love be what you are.

Deja que la belleza que amas sea lo que eres.

Rumi

Spreading beauty

 

O Loving Being, help me to spread your beauty everywhere I go today. Flood my soul with your spirit and light. Fill my whole being so utterly that all my life may be a radiance of you.

John Henry Newman

The Subtle Power of Fear

 

F.E.A.R. – False Evidence Appearing Real

Be aware of its subtle power. Do not attack, avoid or try to banish your fears: meet them, accept them – and you will slowly transform them

Daniel O’Leary

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

L'uomo che cavalcava nel buio

 

“L’uomo che cavalcava nel buio”

Occhi limpidi, cuore puro

Se tu hai paura, il cavallo avrà paura…

È come uno spugno

 

Ojos límpidos, corazón puro

Si tu tienes miedo, el caballo tendrá miedo…

Es como una esponja

 

Clear eyes, pure heart

If you are afraid, the horse will be afraid…

It is like a sponge

Wintering

 

You may think yourself lazy, or flawed. Yet your body is made of almost exactly the same elements as the stars. Your bone composition matches the coral in the seas and you, my friend, are ruled by the moon and the sun. Whether you like it or not. So no, you are not lazy, Nature is simply pulling you to slow, like the life, floral and fauna around you. It is not your moment to rise. It is winter, you are wintering. And you are right on time.

 

Donna Ashworth

Calm MInd & Subtle Perception

 

When the mind calms it can hear more subtle things – that’s when your thinking slows down, your intuition starts to blossom and you see things more clearly in the present. This is a discipline and you have to practise it.

Steve Jobs

Still Water

 

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us so that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

W.B. Yeats

The Lord Bless You and Keep You...

 

“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.”

Num. 6:24-26

 

This blessing was entrusted by God, through Moses, to Aaron and his sons, i.e. to the priests of Israel. It is a triple blessing filled with light, radiating from the repetition of the name of God, the Lord, and from the image of His face. In fact, in order to be blessed, we have to stand in God’s presence, take His name upon us and remain in the cone of light that issues from His face, in a space lit by his gaze, diffusing grace and peace.

Pope Benedict XVI

Homily, 01/01/2012

Einstein and Miracles

 

There are only two ways to live your life: one is to believe that nothing is a miracle. The other is to believe that everything is a miracle.

 

Albert Einstein.

Human Evolution and Light

 

In ogni paesaggio,

c’è l’anima del mondo.

Giorgio Morandi

 

The Cup of the Natural Sciences

The first swallow from the cup of the natural sciences makes atheists – but at the bottom of the cup God is waiting.

Weiner Heisenberg, Nobel prize Nuclear Physics

 

Fine Tuning of the Soul

 

There is a common misconception that the good things in life come from being in the right place at the right time. In truth, everything that is good comes from being on the right channel with the right reception.

This is what the sages call “z’chut”, sometimes translated as “merit”. What it really means is a kind of fine-tuning of the soul.

How do you fine-tune the soul? You have 3 knobs:

•What you say

•What you do and

•What you think.

Adjust them carefully for static-free reception.

12 Tammuz 5732:8

Pope Benedict XVI

 

On December 31st. Pope Benedict XVI passed away. He is probably the most undervalued and misunderstood pontiff of recent times. His homilies were always a source of deep meaning and profound teaching, not of clichés and platitudes. A man of profound faith, but at the same time a theologian and profound thinker, Benedict XVI was the perfect symbiosis of  faith and reason. If one should ever be tempted to disagree with anything he said, one would have to study hard to be able to counter his arguments so firmly rooted in knowledge. For us he was a source of light and strength, and he has been sorely missed ever since heis abdication from the position of pontiff. More so now ... His numerous books and papers may help to fill that void.

Opening to the Infinite

When He had finished His world, complete and whole, each thing in its place, the earth below and the heavens above, … it was then that the Artist signed His holy name, with a vacuum in time, a motionless vortex to the constant change, a hollow through which infinite Light could enter within and kiss the finite world. And He called it Shabbat.

 

In each thing there is a Shabbat, an opening that allows life to enter, a desire to receive from Beyond. In each being there is a sense of wonder, of knowing that there is something greater. A something it will never know.

 

And through that opening it receives life. With that wonder, it opens itself to the Infinite.

 

Corazón de volcán

 

Si tu corazón es un volcán,

¿cómo esperas que en él broten flores?

Gibran Khalil Gibran