Tag: balance

Read no newspapers.

Try to find a few friends who think as you do;

Read the wonderful writers of earlier times – Kant, Goethe, Lessing – and the classics of other lands;

Enjoy the natural beauties of your surroundings.

Make friends with a few animals.

Then you will become a cheerful man once more, and nothing will be able to trouble you

Bear in mind that those who are finer and nobler are always alone – and necessarily so – and that because of this they can enjoy the purity of their own atmosphere.

Albert Einstein, letter of 5 April 1933 to a troubled, unemployed musician living in Munich who was fearful of the rise of fascism around him.

You may say, “I must do something this afternoon,” but actually there is no “this afternoon.”

We do things one after the other.

That is all.

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Breathing

This is why mindfulness of the Body is the foundation of all

From the body’s viewpoint, safety and danger are neither situational nor based on cognitive feelings.

Rather, they are physical, visceral sensations. The body either has a sense of safety or it doesn’t.

If it doesn’t, it will do almost anything to establish or recover that sense of safety.

Resmaa Manakem, My Grandmother’s Hands

Try to live simply.

A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength

Quaker Faith and Practice, Advices and Queries, 41

For today: gather yourself in the heart instead of scattering yourself among your problems.

The heart-mind grounds the body.…

When the heart-mind is settled and our energy (qi) gathers there and is not scattered,

the body’s energies work together harmoniously,

and the body remains free from suffering.

Dong Zhongshu, 179 BC – 104 BC, .Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals