Someday My Prince Will Come ✨

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打ち込む態勢をつくるのが先で、剣はそれに従うものだ。

- Miyamoto Musashi ( 宮本武蔵 )

The first thing to do is to make a position to strike and the sword will follow.

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Art by Cycle Circle

Don't expect anything to happen. Just wait. This waiting is a deep acceptance of the moment as such. Nietzsche called it amor fati-unquestioning love of whatever has fated you to be here. You reach a point where you're just sitting there, asking, "What is this?" but with no interest in an answer. The longing for an answer compromises the potency of the question. Can you be satisfied to rest in this puzzlement, this perplexity, in a deeply fo cused and embodied way? Just waiting without any expectations?

Ask "What is this?," then open yourself completely to what you "hear" in the silence that follows. Be open to this question in the same way as you would listen to a piece of music. Pay total attention to the polyphony of the birds and wind outside, the oc casional plane that flies overhead, the patter of rain on a window. Listen carefully, and notice how listening is not just an opening of the mind but an opening of the heart, a vital concern or care for the world, the source of what we call compassion or love.

🌿 Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude

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"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world"

- The Philosophy of Composition, 1846

sunrise / sunset

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“Today’s residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every metropolitan area in the United States.”

-Richard Rothstein