There is a deeper life
than the life we see and hear
with the open ear and the
open eye.
Sean O’Casey, Irish Playwright, died this day, 1964, I Knock at the Door
A deeper life
The quality of life
Turning inward does not have anything to do with thoughts, ideas, opinions, or philosophies. It has nothing to do with the psychological activity of your mind.
Enhancing your perception means enhancing your ability to receive life, just as it is.
If you are willing to dedicate just a few minutes of your life to this every day, you would see the change.
The simple process of paying a little bit of attention to your inner nature will transform the quality of your life in remarkable ways.
Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy
The cost of vigilance
Some lives have very strong internal observers: the parent, critic, authority figure or imagined public.
I lived so carefully,
thinking someone was watching.
But the stage was empty;
the audience never came.
Attributed to Osamu Dazai, modern Japanese author of No Longer Human
The glory of God is a human being fully alive
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book IV, 20.7
Storms
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it,
We will have to learn to live with it –
just as we have learned to live with storms.
Paulo Coelho
Never quite arriving
Most of us were raised: to prioritize future benefits over current enjoyments.
But ultimately it backfires.
It wrenches us out of the present, leading to a life spent leaning into the future, worrying about whether things will work out,
experiencing everything in terms of some later, hoped-for benefit, so that peace of mind never quite arrives
Oliver Burkeman,, Four Thousand Weeks
Sunday quote : satisfied
Nothing is enough for the person
to whom enough is too little.
Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy (quoting Epicurus)
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