Just a saying

What we can't cure, we must endure.

Becoming an adult

Children consume and have no responsibility for what they do.

Adults create and have responsibility for their actions.

Being an adult may be more challenging (and indeed many adults would like to keep a child-like lifestyle), but eventually, it's much more satisfying and empowering.

Ruling your Universe

Each of us is ruling their own little Universe. Many things are possible and doable in your own Universe, as long as they don't violate other people's Universes.

Ulysses and the Sirens

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Where there's a will...

Those who want find opportunities.

Those who don't want find excuses.

Teaching yourself

Our responsibility as adults is to teach ourselves what we weren't taught as children, and to give ourselves all the love, respect, care, and consideration that we weren't given as children.

Forever learning

Those who insist they have nothing more to learn are the ones who need to learn the most.

Love

Loved ones come in many shapes and sizes, but love comes in only one - Universal.

Regret

It's better to do something and regret it later than to do nothing and regret it all my life.

Gracefulness

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

~ George Will

Photo: "Jack of Hearts II" by Cat Mapper (Max Ogden), licensed under CC0 1.0

Centralization limitations

• 1 head vs 7 billion heads
• framework vs freedom
• one-size-fits-all vs individualized needs
• tried and proven vs trial and error => few new solutions

Appreciating old age

Many people are blessed with being young. But not all of them will be blessed with being old.

Being someone's number one

As years go by, and people grow networks of closeness around them, it becomes more and more important to have those with you for whom you will be number one priority, no matter what happens.

Cats and fish

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape,
then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

~ Doris Lessing

Photo from Unsplash by Stainless Images

Gazing into the eyes of another living being

Magic of the winter night

The earth is wrapped in fallen snow, with silence all around.
It's not the snowflakes but my dreams keep falling on the ground.

Photos source

Zhang Daoling riding a tiger

Source

Freedom of happiness

My happiness won't be the same as other people's happiness. 

I let myself be happy my way and others be happy their way.

Regulating food

Food is not entertainment. Food is a pressing need. When it isn't, there's no need to eat.

Kulning - Ancient Swedish herdingcall

The echoing hallway

Foggy mind is like an echoing hallway: past events and past thoughts keep echoing in it again and again, sometimes reinforced by new events and new thoughts.

Clear mind is like an open field: events and thoughts happen once and then disappear like a sound in the vastness of the air, without any trace.

You and the other

It's easy to have good ideas when you're alone.

But then the other arrives, and suddenly everything you thought was good, and correct, and proper gets challenged.

And with that, it can only become better - if you allow it to.

To make a mistake

To make a mistake, to be wrong means to get closer to the truth as well.

Courage

It's easy to fight without being afraid. It's also easy to be afraid and avoid fighting. But to be afraid and still fight - that's what takes real courage.

~ Adapted from The Four Just Men (a 1950s TV show)

Decluttering

Both physical and psychological decluttering consists of 2 blocks:

• Getting rid of the stuff I've accumulated so far

• Changing the routines to prevent accumulating it again

A long road

Life is like a long road. It seems endless, but at some point of the way we all encounter signs that say '5 km to the precipice'. At those times we begin to appreciate the remaining way like never before.

Imbolc Offering

Out of coldness is born the warmth
Out of emptiness is born the abundance
Out of night is born a day
Out of darkness is born the light

Let there be warmth in our hearts
Let there be abundance in our homes
Let the days be longer and longer
Let the light be brighter and brighter