A little more. Do every day not only what you got to, but just a little more. It’s like a vector – it has no length, but has direction and power.

Marriage is like a bow where the power results from the balanced tension between self-realization in activity and self-realization in love.

Words by Joy, design by me. 2000

First, the aim of nonviolence is ultimately to bring peace to yourself, to quell your own violence; the enemy outside serves only to mirror the enemy within. Second, your ability to be nonviolent depends on a shift in consciousness. Last, if you are successful in changing yourself, reality will mirror the change back to you. Deepak Chopra

“[Jesus's] doctrine of ‘the last shall be first’ was aimed at revealing a deeper truth, that spirit has been put last in the word and deserves to be first”. Deepak Chopra

“Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.” (Roger von Oech)

I always feel like a First Snow Day is for me so special, and I always wonder why do I feel so.

It’s like an end and a fresh beginning. Everything that was said, was said, and everything that was done, was done. Snow has sealed the past. Now, we start anew, as if we were back to humanity’s childhood, back to that half-million-years-ago prehistoric epoch when there were no machines and websites, but there still were magic poems and games and dances under the first snow.

“When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.”

By some strange intuition, today I’ve reread the words of this poem by Peter Handke from Wings of Desire, a film I always admired. I was astonished when I stumbled upon these words:

“When the child was a child…
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.”

And waits that way even now.

Happy First Snow Day, dear friends.

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking” (Heidegger).

“Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being” (Heidegger).