Paradise is not a place. It is a condition of the heart.
Some travel to all the world’s wondrous places and never truly arrive, for they go with a clenched heart that blinds them to the shallowed muting of their unusual life.
Others stay home yet arrive over and again to the most enchanting places and discoveries. For they live with a wide open heart that journeys ever beyond the body as a spirit in love with life.
Open your phenomenal heart. Travel beautifully.
Jaiya John, Fragrance After Rain
Live in each season as it passes;
breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit,
and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep your thoughts and feelings steady, and your breathing (qi) relaxed and even.
心平气和
Heart-mind calm,
breath harmonious
Common Chinese saying
A long weekend. To waste time well is a recovery of our humanity from the tyranny of constant productivity
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon
in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976, quoted in Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life worth Living
If we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word “opportunity”, we see hidden beauty shining from below, which is the Roman god Portunus, patron of harbours.
Seen in this light
every new circumstance is like sailing into a strange and distant port,
which may offer a haven, if we choose to take refuge.
Phil Cousineau, The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and their Origins
The true purpose is to see things as they are,
to observe things as they are,
and to let everything go as it goes.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
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