A very important thing
is not to make up your mind
that you are any one thing.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American modernist writer, poet andart collector
Sunday Quote: not fixed
Wake up
The sound of a bell
Still reverberating,
or a blackbird calling
from a corner of the field,
asking you to wake
into this life,
or inviting you deeper
into the one that waits.
David Whyte, The Bell and the Blackbird [extract]
A deeper life
There is a deeper life
than the life we see and hear
with the open ear and the
open eye.
Sean O’Casey, Irish Playwright, died this day, 1964, I Knock at the Door
The quality of life
Turning inward does not have anything to do with thoughts, ideas, opinions, or philosophies. It has nothing to do with the psychological activity of your mind.
Enhancing your perception means enhancing your ability to receive life, just as it is.
If you are willing to dedicate just a few minutes of your life to this every day, you would see the change.
The simple process of paying a little bit of attention to your inner nature will transform the quality of your life in remarkable ways.
Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy
The cost of vigilance
Some lives have very strong internal observers: the parent, critic, authority figure or imagined public.
I lived so carefully,
thinking someone was watching.
But the stage was empty;
the audience never came.
Attributed to Osamu Dazai, modern Japanese author of No Longer Human
The glory of God is a human being fully alive
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book IV, 20.7
Storms
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it,
We will have to learn to live with it –
just as we have learned to live with storms.
Paulo Coelho
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