slowing down, letting go

drjay1966 · 07-08-2008, 01:02 AM

I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass
Walt Whitman

No one seems to know
How useful it is to be useless
Chuang Tzu

YogaWithSpirit · 07-08-2008, 06:41 AM

The quotations you posted remind me of her. Here's one I love:

The Old Poets of China by Mary Oliver
Wherever I am, the busyness of the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

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07-08-2008, 01:02 AM	#1
drjay1966 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: West Mt. Airy, State of Perplexity Posts: 8	I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass Walt Whitman No one seems to know How useful it is to be useless Chuang Tzu

07-08-2008, 06:41 AM	#2
YogaWithSpirit Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania Posts: 7	The quotations you posted remind me of her. Here's one I love: The Old Poets of China by Mary Oliver Wherever I am, the busyness of the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.