“The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.” WorldGivingSoulSufferingWalksExistenceForeverThis WorldEternalYogaKarmaBlissKarma Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.” PeopleGivingDoeHas BeensSometimesGivenWalksExistenceAliveMysterySweetOne DayJudgmentEdgesPossessionGloriousAbundanceMaskConsentJoyous Book:The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition Source: The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition
“To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.” MindEyeYoungJoyDesirePassionEnjoyWalksExistenceVisionWalkingThousandBehaviorAssumingDepthAdmireLive LifeUnhappinessLeisurePortraitsSublimePlungeGrotesqueMind Set Author:Honore de Balzac
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!” WorldWantTwoDiesFallWalksExistenceRocksMassEternityDeeperForestsDustComparisonMortalityFleetingTombsMarbleDiggingWanting To DieCrumbling Author:Denis Diderot
“My friend devotes himself to his life, whenever he can find the spare time. His motto is: 'Don't just sit there: live!' So he's too busy to stand, to walk, to do anything, except to live. He even refused to kiss a girl, when invited, on the grounds that it was time again to be living. Schedules are sacred to him.” LifeGirlWalksExistenceKissingMy FriendsSacredBusySparesSchedulesInvitedMottoToo BusySpare Time Author:Marvin L. Cohen
“Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.” ShouldLooksEndsLightWalksExistencePromiseUniqueFlowRiversDetermineFadesRunnersMarathonDurationMarathon RunnersBright Lights Author:Mooji
“A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."” LongHumorFunnyFacesLawWalksExistenceAspectHorseBarsProtectedBarmen Author:Bill Bailey
“Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.” ThinkingWorldFeelsKindSelfHelpingFallNaturalWalksExistenceStepsOceanDeceivingNatural WorldNumbAmnesiaImmensitySelf CenterednessCenterednessSummoning Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.” WorldMindStillsSoulDreamHandsLightSpiritStarsHurtWalksExistenceYouthAll ThingsShiningIronAfarHope And FaithArcherBeen HurtWalk By FaithGuiding Stars Book:The Complete Works of William Hazlitt Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt