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"For me, that’s pretty much it: waking up and being excited and curiously restless to face the day ahead, and being very present with that day, and then going to bed feeling like it actually happened, that the day was lived. There’s nothing more than that, really."

When Cú Chulainn eventually realised that he had been mortally wounded, he tied himself to a large stone so that he could die standing up, face to face with his enemies. There he remained for three days, still capable of striking fear into his foes. No one dared approach him. It was only when the Morrigan, in the form of a raven, perched on Cú... See more

And as you tightened your grip, cinching your hands together midway down the too-prominent knobs of his spine, and as he signaled to the yellow-vested Rent-a-Cops to come and take you away, maybe that was why you thought suddenly, fondly, of your mother, and of the time she came up from behind and wrapped her arms around you as you struggled with a... See more

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments. To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go? “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes Jorge Luis Borges. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the... See more

cir·cu·i·tous

/sərˈkyo͞oədəs/

adjective

(of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way.

"the canal followed a circuitous route"

Understanding that nothing is permanent will have us understand that this moment will never be again - there may be similar moments, there may be more beautiful or uglier moments, but this specific moment will never be again. When we know this, being present and seeing meaning even in the most mundane of things becomes very easy because every... See more