It’s morning again…and the world’s drying off with fresh-laundered sunshine.
Life’s face is never the same
though we may look at it for all eternity.
Kolbein Falkeid, Norwegian poet, 1933 –
Sunday Quote: Fresh
Tag: Meditation
Weather
After a period of unusually warm weather in Ireland, we now have wind and rain. Change and what doesn’t change….
My real dwelling
Has no pillars
and no roof either.
So the rain cannot soak it
And the wind cannot blow it down!
Ikkyu, 1394–1481, Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Pizza
The sky isn’t more beautiful if you have perfect skin. Music doesn’t sound more interesting if you have a six-pack. Dogs aren’t better company if you are famous. Pizza tastes good regardless of your job title.
The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.
Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
Simple and slow
Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and informational in our expressiveness – an exact antipode to the virtues of the soul. It is no wonder, then, that in an age of telecommunications – which, by the way, literally means “distant connections” – we suffer symptoms of the loss of soul. We are being urged from every side to become efficient rather than intimate.
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Air
All you can do for another person
is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air,
they could.
Ram Dass
Sunday Quote: Content
There is great happiness in not wanting,
in not being something,
in not going somewhere.
Jiddu Krisnamurti
