Listen and learn. Time is divided into two rivers: one flows backward, devouring life already lived; the other moves forward with you exposing your life. For a single second they may be joined.
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And having traveled so much for 51 years around the globe, I've always felt that when I think of escape, it's not so important where you're escaping to, but what you're escaping from. And famously, if an angry person goes to Tibet, he starts complaining about the altitude. In other words, he's gone to a beautiful place, but he hasn't escaped himself.
Pico Iyer — TED Radio Hour
When in disgrace with fortune in men's eyes, I all alone bewep my outcast state and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries and look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, featured like him. Like him with friends possessed, desiring this man's art and that man's scope, with what I most enjoy contented least. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, happily I think on thee, and then my state, like to the lark at break of day, arising from sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.
Book of the Day
We walk around and we're kind of asleep. We don't notice anything. We take everything for granted. We have the same little circle of thoughts going round and round in our head. Our grievances, our emo, our envy, our comparing what other people have. And we're not we're not awake. We're not. And so outside that interior bubble is this world that is strange, that is weird, that has these other qualities that are that are not what you think they are, right? And so the sublime is all around you and it's just a matter of waking up to it and getting out of the trance that you're in.
Daily Stoic