“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.” IfsLooksDifferentMatterMomentsSeemsHappensCertainOne ThingNo Matter WhatConstantSurfaceThings HappenFactorsWelcomeLife ChangingEach DayDifferent ThingsFriendlyPresent MomentWhy NotStillness Speaks Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.” LooksEyeWatchesCasesWeakSickLegacyLook UpFriendlySheepRavens Author:Seneca the Younger
“I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.” ThinkingLooksEnoughBodySeemsScienceJudgingExerciseDiseasePatientRecoveryPerceiveServantWelfareLook UpFriendlyPhysiciansDiagnosisAssistantsHinderEndeavourHurtfulCarrying OnCounsellors Book:Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature Source: Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature