"Memory is the space in which a thing happens for the second time."

– Paul Auster (The Invention of Solitude)

What event keeps happening again and again in the space of your memory?

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"Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes."

– Mary Oliver (Wild Geese)

Can you let the world go on while you simply attend to what is in front of you?

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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves."

– Thich Nhat Hanh (The Miracle of Mindfulness)

What daily ritual could become sacred if you gave it your full attention?

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"Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully."

– Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life)

What wonderful rearrangement has your life made around a thing that broke?

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"We live, as we dream — alone."

– Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

In what way are you alone even inside your most intimate relationships?

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"All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional."

– Joseph Campbell

What are you quietly thankful for, even now?

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"Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness."

– Thich Nhat Hanh

What did you notice today that made you slow down?

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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away."

– Henry David Thoreau

What small moment today felt like enough?

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"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

– Rumi

What are you quietly thankful for, even now?

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"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

– Henry David Thoreau (Walking)

What untamed part of yourself do you keep trying to domesticate, and what would happen if you stopped?

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"To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle."

– Walt Whitman

What small moment today felt like enough?

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"I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt at the end, the way you might lean into a heavy wind that almost winds up supporting you after a while."

– Mary Karr

What small moment today felt like enough?

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"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

– Mark Twain

What are you quietly thankful for, even now?

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"Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!"

– Langston Hughes (Life Is Fine)

After your lowest moments, what brought you back to feeling that life is fine?

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"For everything you have missed you have gained something else."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What small moment today felt like enough?

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"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."

– Joseph Campbell

What are you quietly thankful for, even now?

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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."

– Patti Smith

Who truly saw you today?

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"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."

– Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

When you look into the past, what do you miss most?

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"I usually solve problems by letting them devour me."

– Franz Kafka

When a relationship of yours is under strain, do you seek to understand or only to be understood?

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"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."

– Heraclitus (Fragments)

Whose words, strange or disturbing to you, deserve a more patient hearing?

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