To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -E. E. Cummings I was listening to [...]
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. -Arthur Schopenhauer I feel as if I am [...]
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by, you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though [...]
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. – Pema Chödrön Most days my morning begins the same. After rising, making of some coffee, letting the dog take care of some business, I do a little reading. Check the new [...]
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction. -Meister Eckhart When we experience the death of a loved one it is like having a piece of our body ripped off. There is no immediate comfort that will ease the amount of pain one [...]
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. -Blaise Pascal I couldn't help but put a few words down here after listening to what I just listened to. It made me think some of those deep thoughts. You know, the kind [...]