Just as people for a long time had a wrong idea about the sun’s motion,
they are even now wrong about the motion of what is to come.
The future stands still, but we move in infinite space.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Category: Make the most of life
Crafting meaning
Meaning does not come to us in finished form, ready-made;
it must be found, created, received, constructed.
We grow our way toward it.
Ann Bedford Ulanov
photo gnangarra
How we see
The mind is the source of all experience,
and by changing the direction of the mind,
we can change the quality of everything we experience
Yongey Mingpur Rinpoche
On not comparing
Regret is an emotion, and it is also a punishment that we administer to ourselves. The emotional state has been well described by two Dutch psychologists, who noted that regret is ‘accompanied by feelings that one should have known better, by a sinking feeling, by thoughts about the mistake one has made and the opportunities lost, by a tendency to kick oneself and to correct one’s mistake, and by wanting to undo the event and to get a second chance’. Intense regret is what you experience when you can most easily imagine yourself doing something other than what you did. Regret is one of the counterfactual emotions that are triggered by the availability of alternatives to reality.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
photo karunakar raykar, two roads in the Himalayas
To live is to change
In a higher world it is otherwise;
but here below to live is to change,
and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
photo ksmini
……what nourishes
Only the kernel of every object nourishes;
Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
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