The fool,
with all his other faults, has this also,
he is always getting ready to live.
Seneca, quoting Epicurus in Letters from a Stoic
Sunday Quote: The biggest fault
Tag: Present moment
If not now, when?
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life
waiting to start living.
Eckhart Tolle
a new year
To know what you’re going to draw,
you have to begin drawing.
Picasso
The most wonderful moment
“My dear friend, has the most wonderful moment of your life arrived?“
He wants to know if the most wonderful moment of your life has arrived. It would be a pity if such a moment does not arrive. We may have a tendency to say “It does not seem that it has arrived, this wonderful moment, but I am sure that it will arrive soon, sometime in the future”. That’s our tendency to answer.
But if we keep living like the way we have lived for the past twenty years, it will not arrive in the next twenty years. It might not arrive at all, that moment we call the “most wonderful moment in our lives“.
The Buddha said, you have to make the present moment into the most wonderful moment of your life. And this is possible, Because if you are able to go home to the present moment, to the here and the the now, become fully alive, become fully present, you can touch all the wonders of life within yourself and around you.
Transcribed from a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunday Quote: Already here
We devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Our small efforts
As I gaze on the icon of Mother and child, I realize that despite the enormous difficulty the world has always been in, Christ as a child was content to be in the world in the arms of one woman, his mother.
God’s action in the world is sufficient while operating in the limited dimensions of one individual, here shown contented in the arms of his mother.
Paul Quenon, Matter of the Heart, A Monk’s Journal, – a lovely profound book of reflections.
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