Environmentalism sells — food, movies, clothes cars, all things that disturb the natural environment to be made.
When ones problems become ones whole life then one really does have a problem.
By handling things we heat them slightly, leaving heat prints on them when we are done. Warm creatures, not things – this is the best use of your thermal powers.
Don’t wait to retire, retire now. Retire from worry, retire from comparisons, retire from proving yourself.
Ones outer life of time and place is retrievable in the document and the witness — a birth certificate, a diploma, the memory of a parent or friend — things outside oneself. Ones inner life is often only retrievable through ones own memory and interpretations of memory –something most personal and interior and unreliable.
I once met a goat who kept saying, “It’s in my heart; it’s just in my heart.” They sacrificed him.
Retirement for some means merely the maintenance of the past. They slave to preserve what once served them. It is as if keeping something cleaned, painted and polished was an end in itself.
Therapy culture isn’t a product of the elite; is is a product of the mess so many of us have made of our relationships.
Temporize but don’t compromise.
“Sometimes, I wish my shadow would carry me.” And, are you sure it won’t? What sometimes might seem most unsubstantial may be so much stronger than one thinks. Something travels along with us – most precious and strong.
All of us, to the very strongest of us, will hear, “You have become weak, as we are; you have become like us,” when the grave rises to meet them. Isaiah 49:9
Old age is when your future is all in your past.
