Meditating this morning it occurred to me that thoughts and things are essentially the same.
We can all see a thought as temporary… they come, and they go.
And a thing seems more permanent…. It appears to stay.
But if we zoom out and look at things from a timeline of a billion years, then both of these things are almost equally impermeant.
It’s all perspective I guess.
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One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.