Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
photo: martin dawes
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles, Greek Statesman, Orator and General, 495 – 429 BC
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This is, I think, what holiness is:
the natural world, where every moment is full
of the passion to keep moving.
Inside every mind there’s a hermit’s cave full of light,
full of snow, full of concentration.
I’ve knelt there, and so have you,
hanging on to what you love,
to what is lovely.
Mary Oliver, At the Lake
photo of St. Finbar’s Oratory, Gougane Barra by (WT shared) Spircle at wts Wikivoyage
Leave everything as it is, in fundamental simplicity,
and clarity will arise by itself.
Only by doing nothing
will you do all there is to be done.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
phot randi hausken
I can give you nothing
that has not already
its origins within yourselfI can throw open no
picture gallery
but your ownI can help make
your own world visible –
that is all.Herman Hesse.
photo tomwsulcer
Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
Joseph Campbell
