Slow time does not mean doing things more slowly. People suffering from burnout and depression have slowed down considerably and not been restored. Slow time is entering into a living relationship with the present. . . . Slow looking and slow listening nourishes and revitalizes us.
Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
An early start to the day, to catch the birdsong at dawn in an annual celebration entitled “Dawn Chorus Day”, moments of joy even in these muted and confused times
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
A bright start to the Celtic festival of Bealtaine, as well as a long weekend here.
Of all ridiculous things,
the most ridiculous seems to me,
is to be busy.
Søren Kierkegaard
The last day of another month
But with the sentence: “Use your failures for paper.”
Meaning, I understood, the backs of failed poems, but also my life.
Whose far side I begin now to enter
Jane Hirshfield, Waking the Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep
Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Evolutionarily, we’re always concerned with what’s not right.
That’s what makes gratefulness delightfully subversive.
Dale Biron, Poet and author
