Moon Shadow
The moon encouraged me. I danced. My shadow tumbled after me. As far as I could tell, we were good companions. And then I was drunk, and the moon set, …
Do Not Seek, Simply Look
The dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become merely shows and mock us with their …
Has This Happened To You?
Many go out for wool and return shorn. Cervantes.
Listening Attentively
What is any man’s discourse to me, if I am not sensible of something in it as steady and cheery as the creak of crickets? Henry David Thoreau.
What is Beauty?
Whatever is beautiful at all is beautiful in itself. Its beauty ends there, and praise has no part in it. Nothing is the better or the worse for being praised. …
Find Balance In Your Life
Length and shortness create each other, from each other. The ideas of height and lowness arise from a contrast between the two. The musical notes of the scale become harmonious …
Government
As we were formerly by crimes, so we are now overburdened by law. Montaigne.
Intent
In the works of mankind, as in those of nature, it is really the motive which is chiefly worth attention. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.