All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt WhitmanRead
There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of appreciating the present moment as perfect in its own way.
Walt Whitman's quote suggests that the concept of perfection is not an elusive future state but rather a recognition of the present. It encourages us to embrace the current moment and accept it as it is, without longing for an unattainable ideal. This perspective fosters mindfulness and appreciation for life's existing beauty and richness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mindfulness and living in the moment.
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,_x000D_ _x000D_ We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss._x000D_ _x000D_ Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;_x000D_ _x000D_ So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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