“We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.” IdeasHumanityHouseAttentionEnvironmentToo MuchOur LivesFieldsBuddhismSquaresOur Environment Author:Frederick Lenz
“Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.” LawPoliticalLife IsHouseOur LivesConstitution Author:Thomas Carlyle
“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.” ThinkingYearsHumansLittlesCharacterSongHumanityHouseBitsPerfectOur LivesLittle BitRelationRelateHuman RelationsNudge Author:Corey Taylor
“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.” LifePlayMotherPassionHouseComedyOur LivesDivisionWombMirth Book:Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry Source: Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry
“There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.” PeopleLoveGivingHeartMatterTruthUsedDesireHouseAttentionOur LivesRelationshipModernPressesPossessionPrioritiesLive LifeOur TimeWhat MattersSchedulesClosetsBackwardsClueSlow DownVitalityModern LifeCrowdedDrainsLive In The PresentPressuredClose RelationshipMost Meaningful Author:Eknath Easwaran
“Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.” HouseOur LivesGardenWindowAncientHungerPetScentBostonLawnsFerns Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us