Tag: Be fully present

Sunday Quote: the little things

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The little things?

The little moments?

They aren’t little

Jon Kabat Zinn

Not letting this day pass

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The ancient Romans had it right:

we lose so much if we are caught up in our fears

and let our days pass,  not making time for what is really important.

Begin at once to live

and count each separate day as a separate life,

Seneca

Taking people for granted

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Day and night,  gifts keep pelting down on us.

If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze.

A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep.

How much we are missing in life

by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.

David Steindal-Rast

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This day… contains all

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Not the intense moment

Isolated,  with no before or after,

But a lifetime burning in every moment

TS Eliot, Four Quartets

 

Sunday Quote: The Unknown

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Life consists in penetrating the unknown

and fashioning our actions in accord

with the new knowledge thus acquired

Leo Tolstoy

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cherry-blossom-1209577_960_720How strange that the nature of life is to change but the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into what we were meant to be

Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow