The book The Happiness Project
The choice is not to separate people into artists or scientists, but to encourage them to be both at once. For in reality, people...are explorers or non-explorers, and the context of their explorations is of secondary importance.
— Desmond Morris part II
There must always be time set aside for playful innovations, for subjective explorations; in short, for the poetic and the mysterious alongside the objective and rational. The choice is not between work and play, but to suffuse work with play.
— Desmond Morris
Look, what you feel doesn't matter. Once you realize that you can will to love - to act for the good of the other for its own sake and not simply for what you may get out of it - then your love will mature and ripen.
— Monks of New Skete
contemplative tradition within Christianity (lectio divina): It would seem to be more in harmony with a person's roots to be able to search for and find this wisdom within the framework of the tradition in which they were raised.
— Monks of New Skete
The pattern, the *habit* of change is what counts. To be satisfied with a one time conversion is to reduce the turnabout to an event rather than a way of life and to fall short of what could be achieved. Repentance is an ongoing process.
— Monks of New Skete
Edit. Edit possessions. Edit committments. Edit comments.
Care is as important as cure.
'First do no harm' applies to more than medicine. Make kindness the default.
Constructing routines for as many tasks and events as possible (even weekly visits with family and friends) frees the mind of mental static.
The days are long but the years are short, indeed. My baby girl turned one yesterday!
Leave room in your day and in your life. None of us are at our best when in a hurry.
Use as a focus for curtesy, restraint, and expectations.
