While there is still time

  I can so relate to this excerpt. I am an ardent lover of the mundane, it defines me like nothing else does. 😊 Maybe because I take nothin...

  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of you...

  I felt in need of a great pilgrimage. So I sat still for three days and God came to me. Kabir, in ' Love Poems from God, Twelve S...

  The middle of June, and I awake to rain - gentle, persistent, enough to soak the   ground and clear   the air.   Isn't this the best k...

'Thinking like a mountain' was one of the books recommended by Malvika Solanki during an amazing permaculture course I did with her ...

"Speaking as a Chinese, I do not think any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophist...

"..The greater the imaginative power of a man, the more perpetually he is dissatisfied. That is why an imaginative child is always a mo...

Anne Lamott wrote this in June 2018, but so relevant to the present! "The world can feel like an alcoholic father sitting in the living...

Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky.  Choose it at first consciously, ef...

Solar On a gray day, when the sun has been abducted, and it’s chill end-of-the-world weather, I must be the sun. I mu...

Watching the Jet Planes Dive We must go back and find a trail on the ground back of the forest and mountain...

We thought we were beggars, we thought we had nothing at all But then when we started to lose one thing after another, Each da...

"You probably believe that when somebody tries to tell you something about yourself that is a little ticklish and a little uncomfortab...

 "And for the ancient Greeks, the whole notion of love is that love should be a process of mutual education. In which two people, und...

Indeed. "Though much is taken, much abides."  And there's more to admire in men than to despise . My fa...

I used to write down interesting things I read, in notebooks, pre-internet days. I have 5 of them, I think I started in ...

“In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree.”  W. S Merwi...

This gave me goose pimples. How Did Hokusai Create The Great Wave?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEubj3c2How I ...

"The great Katsushika Hokusai was an artist, a Japanese one but ironically least like a typical Japanese artist. ...

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop g...