No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them, we may forget altogether to live them
Alan Watts, This is it
et d’être simplement heureux)
Guillaume Apollinaire
photo jim pennucci
A beautiful description of what meditation time is: an act of kindness towards ourselves, a time when we do not have to be anything or get anywhere. We can allow trouble and judgment to be busy somewhere else, while we allow ourselves be supported and held in a kinder space.
Just lying on the couch and being happy.
Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head.
Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has
so much to do in the world.
People who might judge are mostly asleep; they can’t
monitor you all the time, and sometimes they forget.
When dawn flows over the hedge you can
get up and act busy.
Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven
left lying around, can be picked up and saved.
People wont even see that you have them,
they are so light and easy to hide.
Later in the day you can act like the others.
You can shake your head. You can frown.
William Stafford, Any Morning
But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow,
everything would suddenly become special and precious,
wouldn’t it?
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy
than in trying to be happy ourselves.
de La Rochefoucauld,
