LIBRA
September 23 - October 22
If there is something of an artistic nature you have been thinking of trying now is the time to stop thinking and start doing. With the Sun moving into the most dynamic area of your chart you can and you will make a name for yourself.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more 'successful' people.
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more 'successful' people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.
Tks for being born, Lou
Very sweet running into you. I HAVE to lend you the Natalie Goldberg! I'll leave it at L Jk's for you tomorrow... but that one I've particularly got to have back because the Gwen Teekle she mentions was my high school great friend!
Here's the EW quote:
..."Furthermore, I thought David [Foster Wallace], at 46, was at a safe age, when things are most likely to be okay or okay enough: the mad search for sex and success that consumes one’s twenties, and then leaves a hangover into your thirties, is done with; the sense of failure, the feeling that it’s all been a waste, that hits after 50 hasn’t come yet. Middle age, which might be a crisis, can also be a calm." ..."So here is the miserable truth that those of us who are given to depression are forced to face when David Foster Wallace commits suicide: It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it." Elizabeth Wurtzel 7/31/1967
BUT then and so
here's my latest Buddha quote mantra distillation:
"The smallest nutshell I can squeeze the entire teachings of Buddha into:
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional."
FB Buddhist Boot Camp 7/23/2013
AND Thich is coming !
Tks for being born, Lou,
(or whatever you're choosing to be called in the spectacular moment)
;-D
m
Here's the EW quote:
..."Furthermore, I thought David [Foster Wallace], at 46, was at a safe age, when things are most likely to be okay or okay enough: the mad search for sex and success that consumes one’s twenties, and then leaves a hangover into your thirties, is done with; the sense of failure, the feeling that it’s all been a waste, that hits after 50 hasn’t come yet. Middle age, which might be a crisis, can also be a calm." ..."So here is the miserable truth that those of us who are given to depression are forced to face when David Foster Wallace commits suicide: It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it." Elizabeth Wurtzel 7/31/1967
BUT then and so
here's my latest Buddha quote mantra distillation:
"The smallest nutshell I can squeeze the entire teachings of Buddha into:
Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional."
FB Buddhist Boot Camp 7/23/2013
AND Thich is coming !
Tks for being born, Lou,
(or whatever you're choosing to be called in the spectacular moment)
;-D
m
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