When everything feels too big, go little.
Wrap yourself with grace and space,
nibble your to-do’s, just one tiny bite at a time.
You can’t out outrun overwhelm, my friend,
but you can stay so still that it passes you by.
If you want to get more done, do less.
Stress dissipates in the face of guilt-free, intentional rest.
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In this hectic world, may your day be gentle.
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I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet
Rilke’s words remind me of my impatience — my need for clarity, for certainty, for knowing how to live forward. But these things take time. Looking back now, I see that if I had allowed more to unfold in its own way, the road to here might have been gentler. Some of the answers might have come more quietly, and with fewer struggles.
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Sometimes the most important recipient of kindness is the one most commonly overlooked: ourselves.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
~ Hafiz
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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
~ Etty Hillesum
Some days ask us to do less, not more; to pause, to breathe, to let body and mind settle; rest.
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So many of us live with an underlying sense that we are not enough. We believe that if only we were smarter, more disciplined, or more lovable, we’d finally be at peace. Yet the real prison is not our imperfections, but the belief that we should be perfect.
~ Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance
These words strike close to my heart. I know the weight of striving, the ache of not believing I’m enough. This quote reminds me, and maybe you too, that peace isn’t found in perfection, but in softening towards ourselves.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries, without them humanity cannot survive.
~ Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness
In a gentle way you can shake the world.
~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Curating Quietude 