Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones:
Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time – that this the basic message
Pema Chodron
photo Immanuel giel
The bird in a forest can perch but on one bough.
And this should be the wise man’s pattern.
Tso Ssu, Chinese poet, c 250 – 307
It is not death that one should be afraid of,
but rather never beginning to live
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1.2
photo of sunrise at the Sugarloaf mountain, Wicklow, by rahulrana71
The only people who ever get any place interesting
are the people who get lost.
Henry David Thoreau
photo tony atkin
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It’s that simple. What you see is what you get
Annie Dilliard
photo marilia melhado
Great things are…done…by a series of small things brought together
Vincent van Gogh
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