Quizzical Questions, Maestro Madam Butterfly, "I Wonder What's Over The Next Horizon?" As We Gently Channel Our Own Still Fire Breathing Dragon Fly Hearts.
"Even when nothing is happening, something is happening.
This is a difficult fact for the human animal to fathom — especially for us modern sapiens, who so ardently worship at the altar of productivity and so readily mistake busyness for effectiveness, for propulsion toward progress.
Silence is a form of speech, Susan Sontag wrote, “and an element in a dialogue.”
Stillness is a form of action and an element in advancement, in evolution, in all forward motion"
~ Maria Popova via "Brainpickings"
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"There are certain epochs in which the changes that take place in the social and political constitution of nations are so slow and imperceptible that [people] imagine they have reached a final state; and the human mind, believing itself to be firmly based upon sure foundations, does not extend its researches beyond a certain horizon."
by Alexis de Tocqueville (July 29, 1805–April 16, 1859) from his 1835 classic Democracy in America (public library)."The great gift of such periods is that they invite us to question our certitudes, our givens, these seemingly sure foundations that have lulled us into complacency — for it is only by being jolted out of our complacencies, cultural or personal, that we ever reach beyond the horizon, toward new territories of truth, beauty, and flourishing"
Fire & Air
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