Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people. Paths are consensual, too, because without common care … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert Mcfarlane
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Quote for Today: Daniel Keyes
I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers … Continue reading Quote for Today: Daniel Keyes
Quote for Today: Herta Müller
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently. ―Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel Public Domain Image via pexels.com
Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
By identifying with a craving ('I want this," "don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
Quote for Today: Erik Pevernagie
Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearean "To be or not to be " we could favor "to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go … Continue reading Quote for Today: Erik Pevernagie
Quote for Today: Julien Smith
Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ―Julien Smith, The Flinch Image: Man in a box © Keith Allison with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Kate Douglas Wiggin
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kate Douglas Wiggin
