A post ending the working week with a similar theme to the one that started it.
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time,
my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
Jonathan Safran Foer, 1977 – , American Novelist, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
There is no such thing
as an underdeveloped moment
Trungpa Rinpoche
Little things may seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odourless but all together perfume the air.
George Bernanos
Be serene in the oneness of things
and erroneous views
will disappear by themselves.
Seng T’san, died 606 AD. Third Zen Patriarch, Hsin Hsin Ming
We humans have a tendency to lean into the future or to seek something “more exciting” than what is in front of us. The challenge is to be fully awake and fully invested in the completeness of the present moment.
The moon and the sun are eternal travellers.
Even the years wander on.
A lifetime adrift in a boat or old age leading a tired horse into the years,
every day is a journey and the journey itself is home
Matsuo Basho, 17th century Japanese poet, Narrow Road to the Interior.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you
Clarissa-Pinkola-Estés
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