Rest

A bank Holiday here in Ireland.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 British Philosopher

Sunday Quote: Here

Happiness,
not in another place, but this place . . .
not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman

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