I’m back after a long break

You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
— ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

About Emotional Communication

“Ninety-three percent of all emotional communication happens through
facial expressions, body language, tone, melody, and rhythm of the voice,
and only 7 percent through words. Do you need words to formulate and
express your understanding of your emotions and other people’s?”

Resilience by Linda Graham

Psalm 146, 3-6

‘Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom
there is no salvation. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return
into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish. Blessed is
he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the
Lord his God: who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things
that are in them.’
Silence by Shusaku Endo

Sometimes You Cannot Put Something into Words

You keep silent about the perplexities, the anxieties that you cannot express in words, but which exist.

Simone De Beayuvoir, The Woman Destroyed

About a Word

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

Margaret Atwood “Surfacing”

September

“September, month of shortening days and chilling waters.”

Annie Proulx “The Shipping News”

About Immortality

“There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal. I have noticed that in spite of religion, the

conviction as to one’s own immortality is extraordinarily rare. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all

profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.”

Borges Jorge Luis, The Immortal

About Singing

“Somewhere behind the church they began to sing a glorious, mournful song. The words they could not catch and only the voices could be heard — two tenors and a bass. All were listening; there was complete stillness in the yard. . . . Two voices suddenly broke off with a loud roar of laughter, but the third, a tenor, still sang on, and took so high a note that every one instinctively looked upwards, as though the voice had soared to heaven itself.”
Anton Chekhov, Peasant Wives

For some reason people no longer sing together. Only performers on the stage sing today.

About Estimation

“We think that we can estimate the situation, but  in fact we cultivate a mental self-abuse, trying to please our loving to be right ego.”

Dariusz Juzyszyn, Radical Reduction of Stress