Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise.
Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Thoreau
Do what you love
Tag: Joy
Sunday quote: Don’t wait
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
The Talmud
This day: Moments
The small boat of the day sails into morning,
past the postman with his modest haul, the full trees
which sound like the sea, leaving my hands free
to remember. Moments of grace. Like this.
Carol Ann Duffy, Moments of Grace
A great deal more
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 – 1945, German pastor and theologian
Now
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think… and think… while you are alive.
What you call ‘salvation’ belongs to the time
before death.
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten –
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment
in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life
you will have the face of satisfied desire.
Kabir
Sunday Quote: A different way of knowing
Certain things are known not by reasoning, but by the heart.
There are things that cannot be expressed.
And yet they show themselves
Wittgenstein
