If we look at the world with a love of life,
the world will reveal its beauty to us.
Daisaku Ikeda, born 1928, Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator and author.
A love of life
Tag: Life
As we go along
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
Alan Watts, This is it
In small things
We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.
Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Sunday quote: light
C’est la Nuit qu’il est beau de croire à la lumière
It is at night that it is beautiful to believe in the light
Edmond Rostand, 1868 – 1918, French poet and dramatist
Flow
You cannot do yoga.
Yoga is your natural state.
What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
Sharon Gannon, 1951 – , yoga teacher, animal rights advocate, musician and author
Sunday quote: our deep sense
We should not give up on our dreams or any deep sense that persists over time, or let it be blocked by our fears.
Since the powers of nature in this dreamer, in that dreamer, and in the macrocosm of nature itself, are the same, only differently inflected,
the powers personified in a dream are those that move the world.
All the gods are within you,
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God
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