Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang, 1895 – 1976, Chinese philosopher, linguist, novelist, and translator.
Lovely days don’t come to you
You should walk to them
Rumi
From what I gather in reading ancient texts, right up to the present, human beings have always been confronted by the same kinds of problems. I think that this world is not a realm that admits to a solution. That isn’t what this world is about. It’s a different kind of activity that we have here. We have to deal with good and evil continually. With joy and despair, with all the antinomies, all the opposites and contraries. That’s what our life is about. We can’t abdicate that.
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
No one grows old by living
– only by losing interest in living
Marie Beynon Rey
The Summer Solstice
Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. At birth we were awakened and emerged to become visible in the world. At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible.
Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty.
John O’Donohue.
photo of the Grianán of Aileach in County Donegal by Mark McGaughey on Wikipedia
Having the capacity to be still
means stop interfering with what’s happening.
Adyashanti
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