The Path of Living Deeply 🐌
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.... See more
Joseph Campbell | Pantheism.com
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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest.
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All good things are wild and free.
Maria Popova • The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul sli... See more
Henry David Thoreau Quote
Most of us are so unconcerned with this extraordinary universe about us; we never even see the waving of the leaf in the wind; we never watch a blade of grass, touch it with our hand and know the quality of its being.
Intellect Will Not Solve Our Problems
One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it
Mardy Grothe • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”