When we convene again
to understand the world,
the first speaker will …
point silently out of the window
at the hillside in its season,
sunlit, under the snow,
and we will nod silently,
and silently stand and go.
Wendell Berry , Those Awake
To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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
The times are urgent,
Let us slow down
African Saying, quoted by Bayo Akomolafe in A Slower Urgency
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]
Now that all your worry
has proved such an unlucrative business
why not find a better job?
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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