Something to remember each day as we start the last month of the year
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life
as in hoping to have another life
and in turning away from the implacable grandeur of this one.
[Car s’il y a un péché contre la vie, ce n’est peut-être pas tant d’en désespérer que d’espérer une autre vie, et se dérober à l’implacable grandeur de celle]
Albert Camus, Nuptials
Though the years are sad,
the days have a way of being jubilant
Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance
We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.
When the mind has settled, we are
established in our essential nature, which
is unbounded consciousness.
Our essential nature is usually overshadowed
by the activity of the mind.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, c.400 AD.
Body and mind are one.
Thus, if you straighten your body, your mind is straight.
Miyazaki Zenji, 1901 – 2008, Zen abbot of Eiheiji Monastery
There is only one life you can call your own
and a thousand others you can call by any name you want.
David Whyte
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