Oh boy, I have been so restless lately. Forgetting to appreciate how great my life is. Fall makes me a bit squirrelly is all.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
-Kurt Vonnegut.
i had the best weekend and i really saw how lucky i am, and will try to remember.
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
~ Mary Oliver
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
—-RUMI
Bliss has nothing to do with Bullfights or Courage. Responsibility is charming but love is holy. Success is met if you’re happy, but f*ck the world.
-Prophetic Number # 12, Allen Ginsberg
Some days we may feel hollow, exhausted, and joyless, not really our true selves. On such days, even if we try to be in touch with others, our efforts will be in vain. The more we try, the more we fail. When this happens, we should stop trying to be in touch with what is outside of ourselves and come back to being in touch with ourselves, to “being alone.” We should close the door onto society, come back to ourselves, and practice conscious breathing, observing deeply what is going on inside and around us. We accept all the phenomena we observe, say “hello” to them, smile at them. We do well to do simple things, like walking or sitting meditation, washing our clothes, cleaning the floor, making tea, and cleaning the bathroom in mindfulness. If we do these things, we will restore the richness of our spiritual life.
-Thiht Nhat Hahn
I am trying! I really am!
I know I have love, romance, a cool dog, a roof over my head and enough to eat, and I like myslef okay, and so that is awesome.
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