Width and Depth

“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”― H. L. Mencken

“Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.”― Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation

Revelation rather than rules
Peace rather than pursuit
Slow over speed
Direction rather than precision
Pause rather than push
Settling rather than spiraling
Space and margins
Contemplation and reflection
Grace and gratitude
Width and depth
Fresh legs, clear eyes, quiet spirit, soul awakening
Leisure is not a luxury rather a necessity, daily
Rest, root, re-enter

“… the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.”― Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation