There is great happiness in not wanting,
in not being something,
in not going somewhere.
Jiddu Krisnamurti
Sunday Quote: Content
Tag: Life
Making space
When we walk on the earth with reverence,
beauty will decide to trust us
The rushed heart and arrogant mind
lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace.
John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible embrace
A love of life
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.
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
