Hello, Thank you so much for everything! I’m sending you something from Marginalia that you might find suitable for your amazing daily quotes. 🙏, Maura
“When liberation finally came two years later, Lusseyran was one of thirty inmates to leave the camp alive. Looking back on how he survived the unsurvivable, he returns to the lifeline of the light and the radiance of what the poet Muriel Rukeyser called “the living moment… in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future.” https://themarginalian.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13eb080d8a315477042e0d5b1&id=ba244838de&e=9c29ab1176 Aliveness, he intimates, is a matter of our receptivity to light, which is the quality of attention we pay the world — no matter our circumstance:
When a ray of sunshine comes, open out, absorb it to the depths of your being. Never think that an hour earlier you were cold and that an hour later you will be cold again. Just enjoy. Latch on to the passing minute. Shut off the workings of memory and hope… Take away from suffering its double drumbeat of resonance, memory and fear. Suffering may persist, but already it is relieved by half. Throw yourself into each moment as if it were the only one that really existed.”
Yes, so true and beautiful!
Hello, Thank you so much for everything! I’m sending you something from Marginalia that you might find suitable for your amazing daily quotes. 🙏, Maura
“When liberation finally came two years later, Lusseyran was one of thirty inmates to leave the camp alive. Looking back on how he survived the unsurvivable, he returns to the lifeline of the light and the radiance of what the poet Muriel Rukeyser called “the living moment… in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future.” https://themarginalian.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13eb080d8a315477042e0d5b1&id=ba244838de&e=9c29ab1176 Aliveness, he intimates, is a matter of our receptivity to light, which is the quality of attention we pay the world — no matter our circumstance:
When a ray of sunshine comes, open out, absorb it to the depths of your being. Never think that an hour earlier you were cold and that an hour later you will be cold again. Just enjoy. Latch on to the passing minute. Shut off the workings of memory and hope… Take away from suffering its double drumbeat of resonance, memory and fear. Suffering may persist, but already it is relieved by half. Throw yourself into each moment as if it were the only one that really existed.”
https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/heroism-ghost-pipe-light?e=9c29ab1176
>
Hi Maura,
Thank yo so much . It is a lovely quote and I will use it and indicate the source, Best wishes, Karl
Lovely, Karl. I curated your thought here…https://brightshinyobjects.net/2023/09/10/flow/
Thanks Todd, Its a night insight, not so easy to put into practice everyday or correctly, Karl