We waste a lot of time seeking someone to tell us what life will be like once we live it. We drain ourselves of inner fortitude by asking others to map our way.
At the end of all this stalling, though, we each have to venture out and simply see what happens.
The instructions are in the living,
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows ‘what he wants,’ while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The beginning is always today
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797 English writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights
Piglet noticed that even
though he had a very small heart,
it could hold a rather
large amount of gratitude.
A.A. Milne
Instead of seeing time as a straight line,
if we see life as a series of cycles of growth, maturation, and death followed by rebirth,
we can better understand why endings are necessary for new beginnings.
Jeremy Hunter, mindfulness teacher, founder Executive Mind Leadership Institute
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.
Chuck Palahniuk,1962 – American writer, Invisible Monsters
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