Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark.
That’s where the most important things come from,
where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Open door
the secret of life
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Stuck
Our self talk matters. “I can’t” frequently means “I have never learned another way.”
Through the first years of life, we organize our entire system in a direction which will forever after guide us in that direction. We end up being restricted, we don’t do music, we don’t do other things.
What is most important, we find ourselves capable of doing only those things that we already know.
Moshe Feldenkrais
when we learn
It is not in calm weather
that one sees the skill of the pilot,
but in a storm.
Epictetus, Discourses 1.24.6
Sunday Quote: two rules
There are two rules on the spiritual path:
Begin.
Continue
Sufi Saying
Real religion
Bread for myself is a material question;
bread for my neighbour is a spiritual question
N.A. Berdyaev, 1874–1948, Russian Christian writer on human dignity and the dangers of oppressive systems, The Fate of Man in the Modern World
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