“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Take a break from your thoughts.
From others’ too.
Opinions, assumptions, bucketing, othering, reduction, complaining, plotting, planning, limits, walls.
Put it all down.
From doing to being.
From spiral to stillness.
From frantic to fun.
From busy to attention.
From figuring to recess.
The power of pause, of still points.
To be refreshed and made new.
To see differently, deeply.
To find awe, reverence, delight.
To live well.
“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”― Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now