The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.
Everything constantly changes. - Roger Housden
Everything constantly changes.
- Roger Housden
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation… - Roger Housden
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation…
We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towa… - Roger Housden
We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towa…
Day by day, tiny specks of us float away. - Roger Housden
Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and… - Roger Housden
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and…
The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed. - Roger Housden
The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.
Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have. - Roger Housden
Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. Y… - Roger Housden
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. Y…
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful. - Roger Housden
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.
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