“An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.” LifePersonsCertainSmartExtremesStupidityDumbUncertainty Author:Derek R. Audette
“The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.” LifeMayImportantHoursEffortSacrificeDemandTasksDifficultyCalmExtremesEndlessRealizationBudgetsArranging Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
“Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.” LifeGrowing UpSucceedPatienceSurpriseBoxesExtremesPersistenceLunchPatience And Persistence Book:Shadow train: poems Source: Shadow train: poems
“It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.” KnowsWayLifeFeelsMovingSpaceInterestingSecurityBalanceSafeLetting GoHarderExtremesSubliminal Author:Bell Hooks
“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.” LifeTwoMomentsChangeGraceBedFlowRiversEssenceUltimateMusicalExtremesSurfaceSymbolsLife ChangingPathwaysAccommodateExplosivesTwo Extremes Book:The River of Winged Dreams Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.” WorldLifeHumansArtSometimesHardSeemsEarthSpiritualPleasurePracticePathAchieveRocksMaterialsHard WorkWallBalanceGardenLaborStonesExtraordinaryExtremesPeacefulHuman LifeRoughDivisionDividedFragileDelicateAccordReconcileFinding PeaceSpiritual PracticeMaterial WorldPolarizationArtificialityMagical PlacesDisenchanted Author:Thomas Moore