a new month begins…
imagine! imagine!
The wild and wondrous journeys
still to be ours
Mary Oliver, Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me [extract]
Aliveness
Tag: Joy
Healthy energies
The more you can free yourself from
your internalization of the gaze of others,
the more liberated you feel…[and]…the more you will unleash the healthy energies of the mind.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Under your Skin
Every moment
Wear gratitude like a cloak
and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
Other peoples ideas
Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
Paulo Coehlo, The Zahir
Happy
Yesterday, Irish people wished everyone a “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day” or if in the Irish language, “the blessings of Saint Patrick’s Day”. But what do these related terms “Happy” and “Blessed” mean?
By happiness I mean a deep sense of flourishing which comes from an exceptionally heathy mind
This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion or a mood, but an optimal state of being
Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
Matthieu Ricard, Happiness
Sunday Quote: Just be present
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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