The meaning of life is just to be alive.
It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture
Things haven’t changed much in 2,000 years.
Everyone hurries their life on
and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present.
But the one who bestows all of their time on their own needs,
who plans out every day as if it were their last,
neither longs for, nor fears, the next day.
Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae [On the Shortness of Life] AD 49
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame
they are free from sorrow from the world
and mostly from themselves
Rumi
If you let yourself be blown to and fro
you lose touch with your roots.
If you let restlessness move you
you lose touch with who you are
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 25
The first of the leaves are beginning to fall…
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,
but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Try to live simply.
A simple lifestyle, freely chosen,
is a source of strength
Quaker Faith and Practice: Advices and Queries, 41
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