C’est la Nuit qu’il est beau de croire à la lumière
It is at night that it is beautiful to believe in the light
Edmond Rostand, 1868 – 1918, French poet and dramatist
Sunday quote: light
Category: Be fully present
Simple awareness
Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
but less interesting than looking.
Goethe
Never give up
There’s a remedy -only one – for the paralysis seizing your throat to mute you,
numbing your hands:
Remember the great ones, remember
Cezanne doggedly sur le motif, his mountain
a tireless noonday angel he grappled like Jacob,
demanding reluctant blessing.
Each life in art
goes forth to meet dragons that rise from their bloody scales
in cyclic rhythm: Know and forget, know and forget.
It’s not only
the passion for getting it right (though it’s that , too)
it’s the way
radiant epiphanies recur, recur,
consuming, pristine, unrecognized….
And then, look,
some reflection of light, some wing of shadow
is other, unvoiced.
You can, you must
proceed.
Denise Levertov, For Those Whom the Gods Love Less [extracts]
Flow
You cannot do yoga.
Yoga is your natural state.
What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
Sharon Gannon, 1951 – , yoga teacher, animal rights advocate, musician and author
Take the step
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard, 1930 – , French Film Director
Witness
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
Ram Dass
