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QotD: Churchill on the Creative Process
Mar. 6th, 2020 07:34 am--Winston Churchill
--Winston Churchill
QotD: Life Will Break You
Jun. 17th, 2019 02:36 pm Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
~ Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
~ Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot,
or the look or the words,
which laid the foundation.
It is too long ago.
I was in the middle
before I knew that
I had begun.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
or the look or the words,
which laid the foundation.
It is too long ago.
I was in the middle
before I knew that
I had begun.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
QotD: Defining Success
Nov. 19th, 2018 11:42 amWhat is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
QotD: Life Will Break You
Aug. 14th, 2018 08:34 amLife will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
--Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
--Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
QotD: Lakota Namaste
Feb. 19th, 2018 09:42 pm"Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be as one."
--Crazy Horse
--Crazy Horse
QotD: Gratitude Unlocks Fullness
Feb. 3rd, 2018 06:14 pmGratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend.
-- Melody Beattie
QotD: Neruda on Life
Dec. 17th, 2017 09:32 am “Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?”
~ Pablo Neruda
QotD: Your Path
Sep. 10th, 2017 12:40 pm Your confusion is not pathology, it is path. It has something to show you that clarity could never reveal. The nature of chaos is wisdom, but you must provide a home for it to receive its mysteries.
Your feeling of disconnection is not neurotic, it is intelligent. It has something to show you that oneness could never reveal. If you will practice the yoga of non-abandonment and provide safe passage – it will disclose an unmet doorway.
Your loneliness, your shakiness, and your fear are not mistakes. They are not obstacles on your path. They *are* the path. The freedom you are longing for will never be found in the eradication of the unwanted, but only in the core of the love and information it carries.
There are surges of somatic activity that contain very important information for your journey. If you will offer safe passage for the unknown aliveness, you will meet the messengers of illumination. Nothing is missing, nothing is out of place, and nothing need be sent away.
Yes, you may burn until you are translucent, but it is by way of this burning that your wholeness will be revealed.
~ Matt Licata
Poem OTD: Treasure the Ordinary
Jun. 8th, 2017 11:16 am“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin
QotD: the Rhythm of Living
Apr. 6th, 2016 01:52 pmAction and reaction, ebb and flow,
trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living.
Out of our over-confidence, fear;
out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope.
And out of hope, progress.
~ Bruce Fairchild Barton
QotD: Risk Taking
Feb. 17th, 2016 08:54 pmI do not risk my life.
I take risks in order to live.
I take risks because I love life,
not because I don’t.
--Stephen Koch, climber and extreme snowboarder
QotD: What We Seek
Dec. 21st, 2015 02:23 pmPeople say
that what we’re all seeking
is a meaning
for life.
I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking.
I think that what we’re seeking
is an experience
of being
alive.
– Joseph Campbell
We need to listen to the patients' story
and develop a response to it.
The approach to complex syndromes
may be much more profound
than just trying to point a round peg into a square hole
and get a singular diagnosis.
--Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD
QotD: Medical Suffering
Oct. 30th, 2015 09:19 pmThe relief of suffering and the cure of disease
must be seen as twin obligations
of a medical profession that is truly dedicated to the care of the sick.
Physicians' failure to understand the nature of suffering
can result in medical intervention
that (though technically adequate) not only fails to relieve suffering
but becomes a source of suffering itself.
--Eric J. Cassell
QotD: What the World Needs
Aug. 29th, 2015 07:36 amDon't ask what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman, civil rights leader
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive.
--Howard Thurman, civil rights leader
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