67 posts tagged “wisdom”

Live-Sky

'Not only are we traveling through the universe, but the universe is traveling through us.  It needs to feel us, what we are feeling, our marvels and infatuations and heartaches;... to know what that stuff is, how it came to be and find its instrument, the source of its music; to experience itself in us or through us.  But most of all, and forever, the mystery and the wonder....  To record and memorialize that, why we are here at all.

Pattern

'Each of us is the curator of his or her life.  In our galleries of meaning, certain displays may be chaotic at times, but meaning emerges by the very act of trying to arrange our treasures, even by accepting what cannot be rearranged.  More important than the final result is our willingness to work at our lives in the same way a curator might work on his or her collection, keeping the storage rooms in order, rehanging this gallery or that.  As curators we are also artists.  We can paint new canvases and restore old ones, as well as mounting and displaying them.  Setting priorities and holding to them is more important even than the materiel given us to shape or the talent we are born with.  There are limits to life itself, but no expiration date on making of finding meaning within it.  For the things that matter most - the parent project, the child project, the partner, friend, and God projects - the only limit lies in our willingness to take such projects seriously.  When instead we neglect them, reacting helter-skelter to every little demand life imposes, we squander the most important gift we are given both as artists and as curators of meaning, the gift of time.'

Dream-2

'It is a funny dream, with an exact sense of humor.  It fits my brain like a glove fits a hand; it fits my life.  A dream is never off the rack.  A dream is always sewn with your exact dimensions in mind, your humor, your obsessions.  A dream fits.

Edge

'You need not leave your room.  Remain sitting at your table and listen.  You need not even listen, simply wait.  You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary.  The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.  It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.'

Pure-H

'I realise that my whole life had been leading up to this moment.  People say that when they win an Olympic medal - 'My life has been leading up to this moment,' they say.  But that's true of every moment.  Even if you're only doing the washing up, your whole life's still been building up to that moment.  Just because something's insignificant you can't immediately relegate it to the past, it has to be in the present for a moment.  That is the nature of a chronological existence.'

MATCH

'An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.'
 - Lao Tzu

'If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.'
- Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power

'The greatest wisdom is readily at hand, and it takes no effort at all. '
 - Travis Saunders, Dragon Intuitive

G-C-Light

'Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.'

 - Simone Weil

'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

- J.R.R. Tolkien

'When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade.  Each wins all.'

 - Lois Bujold