“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
The kitchen & the bath
Who enters the Turkish bath will sweat.
If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
– proverbs quoted by Yonca and Alastair
Lake of Zürich
“Whatever we think about regularly, that becomes the habit of our mind.”
Cultivate mindful awareness, because whatever we practice grows stronger.
— Tara Brach quoting Buddha, Talk on Rewiring for happiness and freedom
Spring in Bellvoir Park
Good ancestors
“Are we being good ancestors?”
— Jonas Edward Salk
Quote found in The Good Ancestor by Roman Krznaric
His talk at the Engadin Art Talk on Longue Durée
How you relate
“It’s not what happens.
It’s how you relate to it.”
— Tara Brach
Rote Fabrik, Zürich.
Life is the obstacles
“I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, ‘If only that hadn’t happened life would be so good.’ Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path.”
— Janna Levin, theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy
leave an extra beat
Let the silence do the work.
Podcast interview by Tim Ferris with Seth Godin, teacher, author and entrepreneur.
Leave room, milk canister in the Alpstein, hike with Markus.
De voir l’univers avec les yeux d’un autre…
“Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d’aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d’avoir d’autres yeux, de voir l’univers avec les yeux d’un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d’eux voit, que chacun d’eux est.”
― Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière
Open market in Zürich.
…then you must
What advice would you give a friend?
If you don’t know what to do, ask yourself what you would advise a friend to do, if they would find themselves in your situation. Step out.