I know we’re living through all the dark we can afford. I’ll match your inward quiet, breath for breath. Thank goodness, then, for this moment’s light What else do we have but words and the...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2024/04/for-my-wife-reading-in-bed.html
“I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding.” – John O’Donohue
“Doubt increases with inaction. Clarity reveals itself in momentum. Growth comes from progress. For all these reasons, BEGIN!” – Brendon Burchard
“Without inner change there can be no outer change, without collective change, no change matters.” – Angel Kyodo Williams
“The task of geniusis to keep the miracle alive,to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous, to swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, think on...
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin The quote that is normally attributed to the writer ANAÏS NIN, but it is also a Talmudic idea about dream analysis:...
“At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m ‘passing the torch.’ I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much – and I’m using it to light the...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2024/02/light-the-torches-of-others.html
“No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2024/02/we-dont-need-more-sleep.html
“You can miss something, but not want it back.” – Paulo Coelho
“My mother always says to me, that there is a reason that we have a choir. It’s because sometimes you have to take a breath, and the tune continues. So right now, I keep singing, but there mi...
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” – Jim Morrison
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Von Goethe
“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection.” Heard here. And here’s the full TED talk by Johann Hari. (Thanks for the comment, Pablo)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/12/the-opposite-of-addiction.html
“What we did: love. We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entw...
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.” ― Jorge Luis B...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/12/i-am-not-sure-that-i-exist.html
“Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing. Telling people you’re g...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/12/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing.html
Whatever seed you are, bloom. – Atticus
Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, but I believe in that. – Nikita Gi...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/11/trying-to-make-a-life-worth-living.html
Be realistic, expect a miracle. – Osho
I feel this.
“Growing up, I never knew a relaxed woman. Successful women? Yes. Productive women? Plenty. Anxious and afraid and apologetic women? Heaps of them. But relaxed women? At-ease women? Women who d...
“The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.” – Chris Williamson
“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocat...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/10/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy.html
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.’ – Maria Popov...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/10/magnifying-each-others-light.html
“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds-...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/10/uproot-war-from-ourselves.html
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Bruce Lee
– Add energy to every conversation – Ask why – Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them – Treat customers better than they expect – Offer to help co-workers before they as...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/09/missing-from-your-job-description-2.html
Focus on what you can control. You control how you respond to things. Ask yourself, “Is this essential?” Meditate on your mortality every day. Value time more than money/possessions. You are ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/09/50-short-rules-for-a-better-life-from-the-stoics.html
Thank you Propheta, what you share is a gift.
I keep coming back to this gem. This part: “… It’s so beautiful is the thing that worries me sometimes whenever you talk about creativity, because it can have this kind of feel that it’s ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/07/permission-to-be-creative.html
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the ...
“To put it simply – we are here to become embodiments of love.” – Paramatma Siri Sadhana
“You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the Milky Way.” – Andrea Gibson
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/let-yourself-be-the-milky-way.html
“Around the world, people create amazing experiences and opportunities. When they do, energetically, it becomes available to everyone. Think of it as a universal database of Creative Consciousn...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/a-universal-data-base-of-positive-intentions.html
“I’m often asked: How can you trust people so much? Because that’s the only way it works.” (Thank you Melanie)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/how-can-you-trust-people-so-much.html
A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/a-brief-history-ethos-of-the-digital-garden.html
“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman
“…as I wander the internet, I wonder where the digital gardens are that will connect me to fellow gardeners more deeply. More often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privat...
“Magic happens through relationships and through faith. How do you build the trust so that people believe that magic is possible? You hae to let people cultivate solidarity and love for each ot...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/06/magic-happens-through-relationships.html