Happiness,
not in another place, but this place . . .
not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman
Sunday Quote: Here
Tag: Life
Not noticing
Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils
of cloud, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatique,
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or a few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm
that witnessing presence.
Denise Levertov, Witness
A new month
Mysteriously, wonderfully,
I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes;
for what comes cannot be denied, and what goes cannot be detained.
Zhuang Zhou, 4th Century BCE
Fully
I don’t want to get to the end of my life
and find that I have lived just the length of it.
I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman, 1948, American poet, essayist, and naturalist
Sunday Quote: Constant practice
Your brain is not designed to make you happy.
That’s your job.
Tony Robbins
The centre of the circle
The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.
The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 29 (Stephen Mitchell translation)
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