Paying Attention

“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
Brené Brown

Brené Brown

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
-Brené Brown

Soul

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Rumi

Ignore

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi

Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

Change

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

Dance

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

Ecstatic

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

Light

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

Seek and Find

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

Roasted Red Potatoes

Last night I cut my red potatoes into wedges and then in half lightly smeared with olive oil and roasted them at 500 in my oven. They came out so well and I wondered why they were better than ever. I believe it was the size of the bits.

Rumi

The quieter we become The more we can hear.
Rumi

they prefer suffering that is familiar

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Cannot be Trusted

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
―Albert Einstein

Stéphane Côté and Michael W. Kraus

IN a society as unequal as ours, people tend to interact almost exclusively with people who share similar educational histories, incomes and occupations — and when they do interact with others from different social classes, even as friends, those relationships seem fraught with misunderstanding and tension. That’s partly a matter of circumstance, but it’s also a matter of habit. As the comedian Kevin Hart jokes, “I stay in my lane, people. I stay in my financial lane.”

We assessed social class by asking participants to place themselves on a 10-rung ladder, with the highest rung representing the people with the most money, most education and most respected jobs. Our analyses revealed that participants laughed less, and displayed nongenuine smiles more, when listening to someone from a different class.

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André Gide

“What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.”
— André Gide

Long Walk

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
HELEN DUNMORE

Two Things

I always work on two things at a time. When one goes flat, I turn to the other.
STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM

Meatball Mistakes

https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/common-mistakes/article/the-8-most-common-meatball-making-mistakes

50 Gallon Tank

My 50 gallon tank is in my empty bath tub waiting for equipment to construct an aquarium.