You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
– Dogen
The rapture of being alive
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.
– Joseph Campbell
Overcome any bitterness
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.
– Pir Vilayat Khan