“Work is life. Not having something to do with one’s life, something important or unique to your talents or however you put it, is a bigger killer than cancer.”
Ray Mungo, via Sunbeams (Page 138)
“All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj, via Sunbeams (Page 138)
“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”
Euripides, via Sunbeams (Page 138)
“The beginning of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings.”
Michel de Montaigne, via Twitter
“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one’s self from enslavement by the earth.”
Anaïs Nin, via Sunbeams (Page 137)
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
Dorothy C. Fisher, via Sunbeams (Page 137)
“If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won’t need to discipline you.”
Leonard Orr, via Sunbeams (Page 137)
“When we lay claim to the evil in ourselves, we no longer need fear its occurring outside of our control. For example, a patient comes into therapy complaining that he does not get along well with other people; somehow he always says the wrong thing and hurts their feelings. He is really a nice guy, just has this uncontrollable, neurotic problem. What he does not want to know is that his ‘unconscious hostility’ is not his problem, it’s his solution. He is really not a nice guy who wants to be good; he’s a bastard who wants to hurt other people while still thinking of himself as a nice guy. If the therapist can guide him into the pit of his own ugly soul, then there may be hope for him… Nothing about ourselves can be changed until it is first accepted.”
Sheldon Kopp, If You Meet The Buddha On the Road, Kill Him, via Sunbeams (Page 137)
“As human beings we all breathe the atoms that made up our ancestors and flow into the same earth when we die.”
Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 296)
“But the wise person can lose nothing. Such a person has everything stored up for themselves, leaving nothing to Fortune, their own goods are held firm, bound in virtue, which requires nothing from chance, and therefore can’t be either increased or diminished.”
Seneca, via The Daily Stoic (Page 295)
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”
Willa Cather, via Sunbeams (Page 135)
