To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Sunday Quote: to live
Tag: Life
Amid the mess
What if the path to happiness is not
bringing order into the mess of our lives
but instead relaxing amid the mess
and rejoicing in its aliveness and beauty
Haemin Sunim, Korean Zen Buddhist Teacher, When Things Don’t go your Way
Sunday Quote: An older wisdom
The times are urgent,
Let us slow down
African Saying, quoted by Bayo Akomolafe in A Slower Urgency
When you wake
There is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.
What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
David Whyte, What to Remember when Waking [extract]
Not paying off
Now that all your worry
has proved such an unlucrative business
why not find a better job?
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
a balanced approach to work
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 9
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