Ready

RCC_1899, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When we are ready,

God is more than ready.

N. Gordon Cosby

Reaching without holding

RCC_1899, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I envy the tree,

how it reaches

but never holds.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Blessing

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It is forbidden to taste of the pleasures of this world without a blessing.

The Talmud

Becomingness

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Life is circles of becoming, an autocatalytic set, inflaming itself with its own sparks, breeding upon itself more life and more wildness and more "becomingness." Life has no conditions, no moments that are not instantly becoming something more than life itself.

Kevin Kelly, Out of Control