whatmadeyouhappytoday

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an original koan by s m alexander
 
A master and a student are studying late into a cloudy night. The master dismisses the student so that he may travel back home.
 
The student appears hesitant and fearful to leave. The master ask the student what is wrong. The student answers that he is afraid of the dark.
 
The master thinks for a moment and with a smile replies that if the student is afraid of the dark, there is one thing the student must do. With great interest the young student inquires what must be done.
 
 
The old master responds gleefully, you must close your eyes!
 
Fear of the darkness
waits always to be conquered
behind closed eyes.

Quotes by whatmadeyouhappytoday

 THE WELL
At times you sink, you fall
into your hole of silence,
into your abyss of proud anger,
and you can scarcely
return, stilJ bearing remnants
of what you found
in the depth of your existence.
My love, what do you find
in your closed well?
Seaweed, swamps, rocks?
What do you see with blind eyes,
bitter and wounded?
Darling, you will not find
in the well into which you fall
what I keep for you on the heights:
a bouquet of dewy jasmines,
a kiss deeper than your abyss.
Do not fear me, do not faU
into your rancor again.
Shake off my word that came to wound you
and let it fly through the open window.
It will return to wound me
without your guiding it
since it was laden with a harsh instant
and that instant will be disarmed in my breast.
-neruda 
the beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together - sagan
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ―Winston Churchill 
i just saw a wonderful use of hiraeth by an'*: i'm homesick for lips that have never touched mine. hiraeth: (noun) "a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that never was".

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. Robert Sapolsky

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
―Lao Tzu

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. Swami Vivekananda
“A human being is part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
―Albert Einstein
Source/Notes: 
Letter of 1950. As quoted in The New York Times, 29 March 1972
 

you will make many choices today. will happiness be one of them? -sma/ what made you happy today

 
 

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