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My daily aphorisms. Reflections on life, death, beauty, change, love, happiness, etc., written in a poetic and whimsical style.
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- Water flows because it's willing.
- Good humor is the sun on cloudy days.
- The wrong step is the right step once you take it.
- The leaves on the water, the fog under the bridge....
- Blessed are they who love people, for they will ha...
- A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest ...
- Every bullet fired can expect a bullet in return.
- Someone told me the world is round, but I'm checki...
- Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.
- Solutions often mask the fact that there is no pro...
- He's the happiest who's happy with nothing.
- Miracles happen so often they become commonplace.
- A dream separates, but a look unites.
- What is fog on the surface is also fog deep inside.
- You don't know how to live. You live.
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It's like not having to remember to breathe. I think we paralyze our ability to really live when we put too much pressure on ourselves to know and do everything a certain way. This aphorism allows us a little margin for error, freeing from expectations of what we should be to allow us, instead, to just be.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can live with that.
ReplyDeleteAcknowledged
ReplyDeleteTao Te Ching – Stephen Mitchell, trans.
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
Thanks for another profound message. I was just going through some old papers and saw this quote, if I may share with you:
ReplyDeleteThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha
Wow, that's 2 messages today about "live." Good old universe is trying to tell me something! :)
I wish I had a manual, sometimes...
ReplyDeleteMe too @Vania..... will be back for more though :)
ReplyDeleteKinda like that Nike ad really: "Just do it." :)
ReplyDeleteDeep thought.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
you live like a river where the flow takes you
ReplyDeleteSometimes we need to stop trying to figure out how to live and 'just do it' (Nike).
ReplyDeleteMelinda
wooooohooooooo!!!!! ;D
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