Quotes from Awake in the World

Awake in the World: Teachings from Yoga and Buddhism for Living an Engaged Life 

by Michael Stone 

Shambhala Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts    © 2011    208 pp.

The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. Since all things are one what room is there for speech? But since I have already said that all things are one, how can speech not exist? (p. 97) -- Chuang-Tzu, "Seeing All Things as Equal"

If your spirit has gone to the four corners of the world far away,
   we turn it back so that you can dwell here, now.
If your spirit has gone to the billowy ocean far, far away,
   we turn it back so that you can dwell here, now.
If your spirit has gone to the flowing streams of light far away,
   we turn it bring it back so that you can live here, now.
If your spirit has gone to the waters, or to the plants, far away,
   bring it back so you can live here, now.
If your spirit has gone to the sun, or to the dawns far away,
   we turn it back so that you can dwell here, now.
If your spirit has gone to the high mountains far away,
   bring it back so you can live here, now.
If your spirit has gone to what has been and what is to be, far 

   away, we turn it back to you to dwell here and to live. (p. 103)
            -- Michael Stone, Flesherton, Ontario, September 2008

-- quotes submitted by Jennifer Knight

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