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| controlled burn at Bemis with beautiful tree against a blue sky |
Recently, I've come across ideas that are admirable ways of being, a sense of how we should be going about our daily lives.
1. Basho's quotation - Every day is a journey, and the journey is home. Being settled and comfortable in the unsettledness of a life of newness.
2. Thoreau's quotation - I am that rock on the pondside. (suggesting that he is MADE for bird song, like a key is made for a lock). We are MADE for this world, and made to take pleasure and be effected by it.
3. Effortless confidence - The aura of Alysa Liu's Olympic figure skating gold. Nerveless and exuberant. Threatless.
These three bring to mind also Zen Habit's idea of "this day is an opportunity to..."
All of these are contrasted with self-protection, whinging, worry, the sentry, worry, anxiety.
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