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“To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.”
Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Volume Two: More Guidance from the Book of Answers: 2

Jett Psaris
“Your confusion will give way to wonder. In wonder you will reign over all things. Your sovereignty will be your rest.” Thomas offers us a vision of a new universe resting on an unshakeable foundation that emerges during midlife. This new foundation is the part of our”
Jett Psaris, Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis as a Spiritual Opportunity

Thich Nhat Hanh
“My dear friends, my dear disciples, don’t take refuge in anything outside of you.”
Hanh Nhat Thich, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

Ross Gay
“This morning I was walking through Manhattan, head down, checking directions, when I looked up to see a fruit truck selling lychee, two pounds for five bucks, and I had ten bucks in my pocket! Then while buying my bus ticket for later that evening I witnessed the Transbridge teller’s face soften after she had endured a couple unusually rude interactions in front of me as I kept eye contact and thanked her. She called me honey first (delight), baby second (delight), and almost smiled before I turned away. On my way to the Flatiron building there was an aisle of kousa dogwood—looking parched, but still, the prickly knobs of fruit nestled beneath the leaves. A cup of coffee from a well-shaped cup. A fly, its wings hauling all the light in the room, landing on the porcelain handle as if to say, “Notice the precise flare of this handle, as though designed for the romance between the thumb and index finger that holding a cup can be.” Or the peanut butter salty enough. Or the light blue bike the man pushed through the lobby. Or the topknot of the barista. Or the sweet glance of the man in his stylish short pants (well-lotioned ankles gleaming beneath) walking two little dogs. Or the woman stepping in and out of her shoe, her foot curling up and stretching out and curling up.”
Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

Barbara Kingsolver
“Oh, how can I say this: People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about our economic status or our running day calendar. Wildness puts us in our place. It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd. It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully. Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

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