Maria Popova on Love
Today
Today is the day we have.
Lao Tzu Quotes
“When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.”
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
Days Are Getting Longer!
The seeds you have planted are stretching out, establishing roots, excited to show their blooms. The days are getting longer and eventually, no matter how impossible it may seem in the throes of a frigid day, your blossoms will sprout and reveal your own unique beautiful self.
Embrace her.
Tricia
Thic Nhat Hahn on Personal Storms
James Baldwin, 4am Terror
Love After Life, Derek Walcott
LOVE AFTER LOVE
by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to yourself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Dr. Dorothy Martin-Nevile
“We are creating the future no matter our past or perhaps because of it.”
Prayer & Meditation
Virginia Woolf
Thich Nhat Hanh on Weathering the Many Storms
The Self
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is,” Iris Murdoch wrote in a 1970
