Monday 25 February 2019

Life as a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally by Patti Digh




What does it take to fully inhabit your life? It takes realizing how important the I that is you is to the equation.



Change occurs at the edges, without permission.



The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100 percent.



Generosity, it turns out, is a way of being in the world, not a way of giving in the world.  It has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.



Creating inclusion requires being generous.  Most often it consists of simply extending a hand.



What we believe is "normal" is simply "common". 



What we do everyday is often based on a pattern that we can no longer recognize because it is so ingrained over time -- or so unconscious.



We lose the ability to see things once we name them.



On this flight we call life, choose your seatmates wisely.  Sit with people you would embrace while going down, who won't hog the armrest or steal your peanuts or take your in-flight magazine.  Sit with people who will comfort you when you're scared. 



Become you, that You not shaped by outside forces, but the one standing up straight, a perfect balance of wind and still, of solid and sway.