"I do not want what I haven't got." - Sinead O'Connor
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
Posted 8 months ago # -
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done
at all." - Peter DruckerPosted 8 months ago # -
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
- Lin Yutang, writer and translator (1895-1976)Posted 6 months ago # -
From poet Emily Dickinson:
Partake as doth the Bee,
Abstemiously.
A Rose is an Estate —
In Sicily.Posted 5 months ago # -
I picked up a copy of Parabola from the free bin at the library, then promptly gave it away (the theme of the magazine that month was giving and receiving, and I was right on it!) But not before I read this quotation by Andre Gide:
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."
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I thought I'd share this one for the Christmas season:
Santa Claus
Howard NemerovSomewhere on his travels the strange child
Picked up with this overstuffed confidence man,
Affection's inverted thief, who climbs at night
Down chimneys into dreams, with this world's goods,
Bringing all the benevolence of money,
He teaches the innocent to want, thus keeps
Our fat world rolling. His prescribed costume,
White flannel beard, red belly of cotton waste,
Conceals the thinness of essential hunger,
An appetite that feeds on satisfaction;
Or, pregnant with possessions, he brings forth
Vanity and the void. His name itself
is corrupted, and even Saint Nicholas, in his turn,
Gives off a faint and reminiscent stench,
The merest soupcon, of brimstone and the pit.Now, at the season when the Child is born
To suffer for the world, suffer the world,
His bloated Other, jovial satellite
And Sycophant, makes his appearance also
In a glitter of goodies, in a rock candy glare.
Played at the better stores by bums, for money,
This annual savior of the economy
Speaks in the parables of the dollar sign:
Suffer the little children to come to Him.At Easter, he's anonymous again,
Just one of the crowd lunching on Calvary.Posted 5 months ago # -
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted 5 months ago # -
susan, awesome poem!
and ella, so true.
being present teaches us that every day IS the best day....simply because it is the only day we truly have.Posted 5 months ago # -
I got this sent to me today. Serendipity! as i was just thinking about this story which is now a short film:
http://www.flickspire.com/m/IAAWAR/LifeIsLikeCoffee?id=~Contact.Id~
Hope link works. Not sure how to format it on this forum.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Thanks, Conny -- I shared the video on Facebook -- I liked it THAT much!
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“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
– John Stuart Mill
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Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
~ Archbishop Oscar Romero
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I saw this in the comment threads at the Guardian website:
"Gifts that don't suit your tastes should be regarded as you'd regard cut flowers: you can appreciate the sentiment behind them without feeling obligated to keep them forever."
Posted 5 months ago # -
lucy that is a good one.
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That is indeed a good one, lucy. Perfect timing, too. Today I received a gift basket of gourmet goodies, but some items aren't to my taste at all. I'm going to pass them on to the Free Box right away.
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"Storage bins end up being trash cans that are never emptied."
- Brooks Palmer, from his blog post today:
http://brooks-palmer.blogspot.com/2011/12/off-target.htmlPosted 5 months ago # -
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
- The Dalai Lama
Posted 5 months ago # -
ella, that line of brooks's jumped off the page at me today too!
so true.and of course, the dalai lama always has something wise and to the point to say!
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