wake up with these thoughts

why are you not romanticizing the mundane things? why are you not cooking with ambience lighting & beverages? cleaning with a soundtrack & dance? answering emails with scented candles on the desk & jazz? why are you not creating pockets of luxury?

“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

– Ram Dass

The world is moving too fast. We want everything done in the blink of an eye. We can't wait, we can't stay still. It's always a race between us and the time, and time usually wins which frustrates us. But what, if for a moment we stop, we grasp out breath and just live.

“Equanimity boils down to this:

Everything is great and I am ok.

Everything sucks and I am ok.”

– Jerry Colonna

“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is f... See more

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.