“My deepest belief is that to live as if we’re dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.”
from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
life and death
To draw
“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw“
– Andrew Loomis
Survival
“Because survival is insufficient..”
From Station Eleven
Stand erect in your sorrow
The question is “can you stand erect in your pain, in your loneliness, your fears, and your experience of being rejected?”
from The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen
Possess
“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison”
From The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
To be whole
“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is to return.”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Work
“Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy?”
From The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sharing
“Speech is sharing — a cooperative art”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Simple
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
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Quiet
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
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