Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may be admirable
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples, and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin 1925-2010, English poet
The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for
regular excursions into enchantment.
It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought.
Thomas Moore
We all feel that health is the natural state of the body.
Why do we not feel that happiness is the natural state of he mind?
Rupert Spira, You are the Happiness you Seek
If you set up feeling good
as what you have to be feeling,
then you are creating another thing
you are failing at.
Mark Epstein
unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
e.e. cummings
No one grows old by living
– only by losing interest in living
Marie Beynon Rey
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