If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything. Shunryū Suzuki-rōshi (via yogachocolatelove)

Although the rain is neutral, although the rain is impersonal, it becomes for me a haunting and nostalgic sound. […] I am caught in musing – – how life is a swift motion, a continuous flowing, changing, and how one is always saying goodbye and going places, seeing people, doing things. Only in the rain, …