Showing posts with label grasshopper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grasshopper. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2015

"There are losses ...."




There are losses.  Our bodies wear out, our thoughts come more slowly.  But our life cycles are our most creative effort.  We can’t ever not be in them … the struggle is to try and obtain a sense of participation in your life the whole way through.  We must treasure old age but not wallow in nostalgia.  Appreciate the joy of attachment without the possessiveness.
Joan Erikson

Thursday, January 10, 2013

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions ...."




“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions;
it is easy in solitude after our own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”