Often what keeps us from joy
is the menacing assumption
that life is happening other than where we are
Mark Nepo
photo of Bantry from outside the town by pam Brophy
Tag: Joy
Sunday Quote: Grandeur
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life
as in hoping for another life
and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
photo Håkon Dahlmo
Our actions
Not what you are, but what you do is the self.
The self appears in your deeds,
and deeds always mean relationships.
Jung, Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
photo tsayrate
Sunday Quote: Noticing small gifts…
We pray for the big things
and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
photo maxo
Just being
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness
and simply be happy.
(De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur
et d’être simplement heureux)
Guillaume Apollinaire
photo jim pennucci
A special day
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
