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We are always getting ready to live, but never living. And yet the secret of all life is enjoyment; it is just to notice what is happening, to see it, to taste it in its fullness, to find the curious savor of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1834)
4d ago

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith.

2w ago

A breath can uncoil as you walk across your own muddy yard, the big dipper pouring night down over you, and everything you dread, all you can't bear, dissolves and, like a needle slipped into your vein — that sudden rush of the world.

3w ago

The mistake that we've made — and this, if anything, is the fall of man — is to suppose that that extra circuit, that ability to take an attitude to life as a whole, is the same as actually standing aside and being separate from what we see. We seem to feel that the thing which knows that it knows is one's essential self. That, in other words, our personal identity is entirely on the side of the commentator.

1mo ago

Time is not a resource we have for cashing in. True timefulness … is to live in awareness of the dynamic and unpredictable array of times that co-exist within one life, as well as the intersubjective nature of time between all individuals. To live it well, we may need to break the temporal norms altogether and finally come to terms with time as entirely relational and contingent upon each other in specific and localised ways.

2mo ago

The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.

2mo ago

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches.

2mo ago

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

2mo ago

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

2mo ago

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A person's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

3mo ago

The great challenge, the great triumph, is to make of memory an instrument of presence.

3mo ago

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

3mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in all those thoughts. We think too much and feel too little. We have lost our minds and forgotten our hearts.

5mo ago

I wonder if we do not waste most of our energy just by spending every waking minute saying hello to ourselves.

6mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We cannot shut down our internal chatter, and it is driving us insane.

6mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We worry about things that may never happen, we get anxious about situations we cannot control, and we exhaust ourselves by living in a future that may never exist.

6mo ago

those moments when our sudden stupefaction facing the world grows so profound that a pillow of air seems to lodge itself in our throats and we suddenly notice we haven't even taken a breath in tens of seconds.

6mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We think too much and feel too little. Silence has become rather uncommon, and these days, even loneliness is a luxury we can't afford.

6mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We cannot shut off our minds; our minds are words, words, words.

6mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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