Tag: Present moment

Sunday Quote: Inner resources

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No matter how dark

The hand always knows the way to the mouth

Nigerian Proverb

How to find where we are going

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Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Thoreau, Walden

The faces of others

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You must unlearn the habit of being someone else or nothing at all, of imitating the voices of others and mistaking the faces of others for your own.

One thing is given to man which makes him into a god, which reminds him that he is a god: to know destiny.

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

Hermann Hesse, If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics

Sunday Quote: Lovelinesss

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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day

Evelyn Underhill, 1875 – 1941, English writer on mysticism

Going with the current

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How can you follow the course of your life

if you do not let it flow

Lao Tzu quoted in Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Crossroads

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When we find ourselves at a crossroads it is often better to stop, wait a while at the lights and check the map. After all, movement isn’t progress if we are heading in the wrong direction.

Matt Haig, The Comfort Book