It's a life

It's a life

Celebration

Even as somewhere

one ends.

In our element

In our element
We mind not

age nor shape

We're out and about.

The mystifying, the awesome

The mystifying, the awesome

Ageing knows no less

Wonder will not cease.

"This being human ...."

This being human is a guest-house

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture, still,

treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

Rumi, “The Guest House”

"The reason we have poverty ...."

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Watts

"Life is what I want ...."

Life is what I want; yi* is also what I want.  If I cannot have both, I would rather take yi than life.  On the other hand, though life is what I want, there is something I want more than life.  That is why I do not cling to life at all cost.   In other words, there are things a person wants more than life and there are also things he or she loathes more than death.

Mencius

* often translated as ‘meaningfulness’

"Wake up at dawn ...."

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Khalil Gibran

"While I know myself as a creation of God ...."

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.” 

Maya Angelou

"Living life is ...."

“Living life is simply in the living.”

Bruce Lee

A stick of incense

 A stick of incense

A wisp of smoke

for a cloudless sky,

An arrogant heart

Sometimes forgets.