“Life isn’t coming at you; life is coming from you.”

—Jason Mraz @ Carnegie Hall

November 23, 2011

Emerson:

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majest

Wallace Stevens wrote in “Sunday Morning”:

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams

And our desires.

–M.N.

"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you."

No Country f

Being present is the opposite of missing out on life.

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk[.]”

(John Keats in a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, 1820)

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace.

If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

(Ajahn Chah)

The reason the Universe keeps putting you through the same experience is because it's waiting on you to choose a new response.