Beauty, Life, Compassion and Affection
These three quotes caught my attention this weekend and I wanted to pass them along:
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
- Martha Nussbaum
Sound when stretched is music, Movement when stretched is dance, Mind when stretched is meditation…Life when stretched is celebration.
~Ravi Shankar~ Thank you Martha for this one. I love it.
From one viewpoint, religion can be seen as sort of a luxury. If you have religion, that’s good, but even without it you can manage and survive – but we can’t survive without human affection. While anger and hatred, like compassion and love, are part of our mind, I still believe the dominant forces are compassion and affection. Therefore, usually I refer to these human qualities as spirituality.
-Dalai Lama
I especially love the part about life when stretched is celebration!
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Me too!!
beautiful.. thank you!!
have a fabulous monday!!!!!!!!
I am happy to share them!