Fellow humans, this episode of Naturebang is worth a listen (I mean they all are, but definitely this one).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyh4
#NatureBang #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #BBCR4 #Radio #Nature #HumanNature
Fellow humans, this episode of Naturebang is worth a listen (I mean they all are, but definitely this one).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyh4
#NatureBang #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #BBCR4 #Radio #Nature #HumanNature
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
-- Samuel Johnson
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Difficulty #HumanNature #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
Meditation helps me navigate the mental asylum we currently inhabit. I don’t involve others in it; they take the initiative. I simply show up and explain what, how, and why. Those who resonate with it join, while others ignore. Some become frustrated, irritated, and angry. 😂
#Meditation #SelfRegulation #InnerWork #Awareness #StayCentered #MindTraining #CalmMind #LetThemBe #NoForce #QuietPractice #PersonalPath #EmotionalBalance #Presence #HumanNature #ObserveDontAbsorb
on the way home, we
on the way home, we
take enough detours to be
filled with gratitude
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Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/
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A quotation from Phyllis Wheatley
In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784) African-American poet, manumitted (1773) enslaved person [also "Phillis" and/or "Wheatly"]
Letter (1774-02-11) to Samson Occom
More about this quote: wist.info/wheatley-phyllis/837…
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In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. Regarding slavery. First printed in the Connecticut Gazette (1774-03-11) through Rev. Occom, her longtime friend.
A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)
More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
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He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy. [He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.] See Johnson (1763). In his 1879 Allminax (April), Billings provided a similar adage: Whenever yu cum akrost a man who distrusts everyboddy, yu have found one whom it is safe for everyboddy…