Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish.
Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Ben Okri
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Tag: impermanence
Sunday quote: Forgiving life
If we forgive life for not being what we told it to be, or expected, or wished, or longed for it to be,
we forgive ourselves for not being what we might have been also.
And then we can be what we are, which is boundless.
John Tarrant
There is goodness all round
And this, our life…..finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare, As You Like It.
Unfinished
The things that matter are unfinished paintings that everyone creates and no one owns. Rather we are created each time we touch the breath of being, and we are connected to everyone who ever lived each time we add a stroke. And sometimes we are briefly aware that we are living parts of the most elemental community of all, the community of life force that moves through everything.
Mark Nepo, The Unfinished Painting
Dropping the question
The question of meaning in life is, as the Buddha thought, not edifying.
One must immerse oneself into the river of life and let the question drift away.
Irvin Yalom, The Gift of Therapy
Do your best
Do the best you can, until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
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