Waking Up

A willingness to begin again is the key to freedom.

Sam Harris

Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.

David Whyte

Read by , Consolations

All is a miracle. So smile, breathe, and go slowly. Walk as if you were kissing the earth with your feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Read by Jayasāra, Zen

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.

Seneca

I came to realize, clearly, that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars.

Dōgen Zenji

Read by Henry Shukman, The Koan Way

The everyday human gesture is always a heartbeat away from the miraculous.

Nick Cave

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

Look very closely: only impermanence lasts. The floating world, too, will pass.

Ikkyū