To expostulate what majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
An Excerpt From the Introduction to “365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life” by Guy Finley
Each of the four seasons, their countless stages, all the actors appearing there: clouds, rain, earth, grasses, sunlight, trees, fruit, seeds, winds, and dancing leaves — all serve to reveal a great, silent, and unseen story called “Letting Go.” This story is a mysterious one, for it is played out upon a stage that is itself contained within a greater […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Everyone thinks of changing the world…”
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Touch the Timeless Life Above the Changing Seasons
October is an amazing month. Right now, in the northern hemisphere autumn is in full swing and you can feel the urgency of change almost as a vibration in the air. Change is all around us. You wake up in the morning and it’s cold and almost a bit frosty; but by late afternoon it’s sunny and hot and people […]
Samuel Johnson Quote – “Let observation with extensive view survey mankind…”
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O’erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav’ring man, betray’d by vent’rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treach’rous […]
Simone Weil Quote – “Attention, taken to its highest degree…”
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Simone Weil Quote – “The most commonplace truth…”
The most commonplace truth when it floods the whole soul, is like a revelation. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Simone Weil Quote – “We do not have to understand new things…”
We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Simone Weil Quote – “Attention alone, that attention which is so full that…”
Attention alone — that attention which is so full that the ‘I’ disappears — is required of me. I have to deprive all that I call ‘I’ of the light of my attention and turn it on to that which cannot be conceived. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Walt Whitman Quote – “And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality…”
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish’d breasts of melons. And as […]
