Month: August 2024

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” – William James

“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” – Morpheus, The Matrix

“From joy springs all creation, By joy it is sustained, Toward joy it proceeds, And to joy it returns.” – Mundaka Upanishad

“Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character: and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.” – John Stuart Mill

“For now, she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself; a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others…Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience, but as a wedge of darkness. Losing personality, losing the fret, the hurry, the stir; and there rose to her lips always some exclamation of triumph over life when things came together in this peace, this rest, this eternity.” – Virginia Woolf

“At twenty, we worry about what others think of us; at forty, we don’t care what they think of us; at sixty, we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.” – Bob Hope, quoted in the London Daily Mail

“Stirring the oatmeal is a humble act – not exciting or thrilling. But it symbolizes a relatedness that brings love down to earth…Love is content to do many things that the ego is bored with. Love is willing to work with the other person’s moods and unreasonableness. Love is willing to fix breakfast and balance the check book. Love is willing to do this oatmeal things because it is related to a person, not a projection.” – Robert A. Johnson

“What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?” – William Stafford

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” – Lin Yutang