Wordsworth invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective.
Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring?
Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Learn the alchemy which true human beings know:
The moment you accept the troubles you have been given
the door will open.
Rumi
If you know that – fundamentally –
there is nothing to seek,
you have settled your affairs.
Rinzai Gigen, died 866
Sometimes peoples words and actions can agitate and upset us.
We wish to react or maybe get fearful and withdraw.
However, sometimes doing nothing, not reacting or rushing to a definitive judgment, can be the wisest course.
Hold a space. Emptiness and form. Non-doing and doing.
Thirty spokes meet in the hub.
But its where the wheel isn’t
is where it’s useful.
Hollowed out, the clay makes a pot.
Where the clay is not
is where it’s useful.
Cut doors and windows to make a room.
Where the room is not,
there is room for you.
So something is shaped into what is;
but its usefulness comes from what is not.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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