birthday musings — HANS LOREI
It's my birthday this week! So I made a list of stuff I learned in my 30s.
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DT Suzuki. Disciple of a master. Cultivated english and taught at Colombia University. "every day I have moments that make me dance". Beautiful reminder of opportunities moment by moment. Capacity to receive invitations to the dance is strengthened by daily practice with the holy breath in meditation.
still one of my favorite lines of all time:
and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
- charles bukowski
“The child says: ‘When I am a big boy.’ But what is that? The big boy says, ‘When I grow up.’ And then, grown up, he says: ‘When I get married.’ But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to ‘When I’m able to retire.’ And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it;
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