If you say that getting money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time.
You’ll be doing things you don’t like in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.
Alan Watts
Task: to be where I am.
Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd
role: I am still the place
where creation works on itself.
Tomas Tranströmer, 1931 – 2015, Swedish poet and psychologist, Guard Duty [extract]
Having no destination, I am never lost.
Ikkyuu, 1394-1481, Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Can’t just “let it go”?
That’s because emotions are not like rocks we can drop and throw.
They are more like drops of water that need to run through us.
So don’t let it go
Let it flow
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
Wear gratitude like a cloak
and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
But how shall we educate men to goodness,
to a sense of one another,
to a love of the truth?
And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
Dan Berrigan, born on this day 1921. Died 2016, Jesuit priest and anti-war activist. His words, addressed during the Vietnam War, are even more relevant today
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