the secret of life

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The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

Stuck

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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

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when we learn

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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

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There are two rules on the spiritual path:
Begin.
Continue

Sufi Saying

Real religion

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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

Each and every day

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There is no less holiness at this time – as you are reading this – than there was the day the Red Sea parted or that day in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as Ezekiel was a captive by the River Chabar, when the heavens opened and he saw visions of God.

There is not less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha’s bo tree…

“Each and every day the Divine voice issues from Sinai” says the Talmud. Of eternal fulfillment Tillich said, “If it is not seen in the present, it cannot be seen at all”

Annie Dilliard, For the Time Being