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The mountains taught me more than any teacher did.
They just stand there being mountains. They don't try to be spiritual. In their ordinariness, they hold something sacred.
What ordinary thing in your life holds something sacred?
Read the full essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/why-i-no-longer-chase-enlightenment-e858ce8048eb
#spirituality #presence
#mindfulness #mountains #meditation
#ordinariness #contemplativelife #spiritualwisdom -
The mountains taught me more than any teacher did.
They just stand there being mountains. They don't try to be spiritual. In their ordinariness, they hold something sacred.
What ordinary thing in your life holds something sacred?
Read the full essay
https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/why-i-no-longer-chase-enlightenment-e858ce8048eb
#spirituality #presence
#mindfulness #mountains #meditation
#ordinariness #contemplativelife #spiritualwisdom -
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 8 (1834)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63317…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accustom #custom #frequency #miracle #mundanity #normalcy #ordinariness #repetition
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 8 (1834)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63317…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accustom #custom #frequency #miracle #mundanity #normalcy #ordinariness #repetition
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 8 (1834)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63317…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accustom #custom #frequency #miracle #mundanity #normalcy #ordinariness #repetition
