Interesting meeting today at my local Quaker meeting house. I was contemplating mindfullness in response to someones thoughts on being in the present moment, and my struggles doing just that.

My favorite Terry Pratchett quote (and my fedi-header) came to my mind:
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has got there first, and is waiting for it".
Today I saw this quote from a new point of view. Wherever we look ahead, we see war, violence and hatred there. TV's showing bad things in every corner of the world, and a dark future wherever we look.
But instead, we should pull back and focus on where we are now, and look to being in the light, and not think of the darkness ahead.

I think Sir PTerry was maybe even wiser than I already thought, and I already had him rated v highly.

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„I write to be a light.
Für alle, die im Sturm stehen.
Für alle, die Healing brauchen.
Für alle, die wissen sollen:
Du bist sicher.
Du bist valid.
Du bist willkommen.“ ✨🕯️

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