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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small that it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keefe
It is the same with anything of importance in our lives. To see, to understand, to appreciate, to influence,... all of these take time.
What in your life deserves the time of your attention right now?
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon
Kabat-Zinn
What moments today are you rushing past? Those are your life, those moments!
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If you ask people what their strengths are, the list they come up with is pathetic. Ask them their weaknesses and you get poetry.
Peter Block
And what's that about, do you suppose??? Because it certainly doesn't help us do our best. It doesn't even make us nicer people!
Take today to celebrate what's good about you, what your talents are, what wonderful things you've accomplished.
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VERONICA: I saw somebody peeing in Jermyn Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply somebody peeing in Jermyn Street?
Alan Bennett
We often tell ourselves stories that are much larger than the actual facts. A great story about our own possibilities can be wonderfully inspiring. A cataclysmic story about how awful things are or will be can add unneeded stress to our lives.
How are your stories serving you? (Or not?)
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When you obtain a talisman of great worth, you should exchange it quickly for a bag of beans. Protection is nothing like as valuable as climbing to the sky.
Ka'a Orto'o, More Gnomic Utterances XXXII il
From "The Tough Guide to Fantasyland" by Diana Wynne Jones
Where are you choosing safety over "climbing to the sky"?
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I like reality. It tastes of bread.
Jean Anouilh
Sometimes we spend our time looking for "the highs." We ignore the day-to-day moments while we wait for the good times. But reality, bread, this moment, is also precious.
Take a long, loving look at what's real.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred
North Whitehead
Our minds run off into abstraction. We see speckle, flutter, hop and think "bird," and at that moment we stop seeing speckle, flutter, and hop. We miss the detail, the experience of the moment. Wake up!
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New day -- new destiny.
Bulgarian proverb
Perhaps this is simply the Bulgarian version of, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." But I love the freedom it implies, and the wonderful not-knowing-ness of each new day.
Even if one day doesn't transform your whole life, it can shift your trajectory a little - and down the road that might make a big difference.
What one step today might you take in the direction of a new destiny?
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Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank-you at least ten times an hour -- direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.
Cheri Huber
Is this the first day of the week you'll try this?
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I'm more clear now as to why I play. It's not just to make people happy or to make them dance - it's to change things: change myself, change the people in my band, change people all over the world, so we can have a clearer vision about life and about ourselves, so we can bring more harmony to the world.
Carlos Santana
Why do you do your work?
Understand that in no work will you find the final word, nor will you find a receipt that will just fit you. The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Robert
Henri
Three things to do a little bit of today:
- Give up the thought that your job "should" be different.
- Find one way to enjoy yourself.
- Find one way to feel that you made a difference.
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Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it.
Doc Sane
I find this an exciting thought, that opportunities are all around us, as common as oxygen, and we only need to pay attention to discover and take advantage of them.
What opportunities are right there in front of you that you're overlooking?
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino
Where do your dreams for a "new and better life" lie, and what are you putting off?
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
Author unknown
Let's make it a good day, a day with an act of kindness or a moment of laughter, delight, or appreciation.
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It's never too late to do
nothing.
Zen Proverb
On the other hand... It's easy to get caught up in the belief that if we just did the right thing our lives would be the way we want them to be. Always looking ahead, always needing to do, to fix, to achieve, leads to craziness. It's possible that sitting right here, right now, doing nothing, is exactly right.
Take a few breaths and be here, now.
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