I came across a wonderful blog this week ‘It’s all about joy – Discovering and enjoying the infinite joys of life, one experience at a time’.
Here is a short excerpt from one of the postings –
“The gentlest thing in the world is an open mind. Since it doesn’t believe what it thinks, it is flexible, porous, without opposition, without defense. Nothing has power over it. Nothing can resist it. Even the hardest thing in the world–a closed mind–can’t resist the power of openness. Ultimately the truth flows into it and through it, like water through rock.
“When the mind first becomes a student of itself, it learns…everything is for it, everything adds to it, enlightens it, nourishes it, reveals it. It continues to open, because it’s in a fearless, undefended state, and it’s hungry for knowledge. And when it realizes that it’s nothing, it can penetrate everywhere, even when there’s no room for it…
“The truly open mind doesn’t have a goal or a purpose other than to be what it is. It’s not attached to concepts of self or other.” Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
