"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."

(Muhammad Ali)

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.

— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An Es

Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.

Everything changes;

everything is interconnected;

pay attention to it.

The first step towards change is awareness.

The second step is acceptance.

(Nathaniel Branden)

I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

– Gloria Naylor

It is impossible to separate what we eat from our health. What we eat influences our health, there is no way around it.

If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill

“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”

— Richard Rohr

Always make space available. Space for feelings, for free thoughts, for development, for yourself. Space for your partner, your children, your friends. Space in the form of time, in the form of attention, in the form of listening.

Give space away.