Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976, Chinese philosopher, linguist, novelist, and translator.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone
Alan Watts
Do not require a description of the countries toward which you sail.
The description does not describe them to you, and tomorrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you go back to the etymology of the word “threshold”, it comes from “threshing” which is to separate the grain from the husk. So the threshold, in a way, is a place where you move into a more crucial and challenging and worthy fullness. There are huge thresholds in every life.
You know that, for example, if you are in the middle of life on a busy evening…..and you get a phone call that someone you love is suddenly dying, it takes just ten seconds to communicate that information. But when you put the phone down, you are already standing in a different world. Suddenly everything that seemed so important before is all gone, and now you are thinking of this.
So the given world that we think is there and the solid ground we are on is so tentative. And the threshold is a line which separates two territories of spirit, and very often how we cross is the key thing
John O Donohue, quoted in the beautiful book, Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave until it gets to shore.
Rumi, Bismillah
A student once asked the spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti what his secret to peace and contentment was. He leaned over and whispered to the student “I don’t mind what happens”
Toni Bernhard, Self-Care in an Uncertain World
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