Day 149p: When the change remains the Same … (September 25, 2019)
And thereafter The Way shifted dramatically – from a smoother sidewalk sauntering to a somewhat dangerous car-dodging drudgery …
“The mountain is calm when there is a storm, and the mountain is calm when there is fog, and the mountain is calm when there is sunshine. Indeed calmness is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains, and for those who have lived its wisdom everything is always founded in calm … Great cataclysms & major catastrophes don’t happen because of anything we happen to do on our own. And yet we are allowed to use the same to summon forth a greater gratitude – a more profound appreciation for a life lived at all. Of course we needn’t know trial or tribulation to choose to love life today. Indeed it is enough to remember that we are humans and that we are both conscient and conscious – along with the fact that we might well be dead that same night. This way of thinking is ever available – and this way of thought will bring the calm.” ~ inspired by Mehmet M. Ildan & Marcel Proust
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