Be the soul

Wherever you stand, 

be the soul of that place. 

~ Rumi 

Greatest treasures

Simplicity, patience, compassion –

these three are your greatest treasures. 

~ Lao Tzu

Tapti pasauliu

Meilė iš pradžių visai nėra tai, ką vadiname išsižadėjimu, atsidavimu ir susilietimu su kitu (ko gi būtų vertas nenuskaidrėjusių ir neužbaigtų, dar nesutvarkytų pradų susiliejimas?), tai kilni proga individui bręsti, tapti šiuo tuo savyje, tapti pasauliu, pasauliu sau ir vardan kito, tai didis ir nekuklus reikalavimas jam, reiškiąs išrinkimą ir pašaukimą į plačias erdves. 

*** R. M. Rilkė. Laiškai jaunam poetui. Puslapis nežinomas. 
Paiimta iš tinklaraščio Filosofija.

Your journey

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly 

what it needed to be.

Don't think you've lost time. 

There is no short-cutting to life. 

It took each and every situation you have encountered 

to bring you to the now. 

And now is right on time.

~ Asha Tyson

New direction

Life doesn’t always go according to plan.
Sometimes heading in a new direction can be scary,

until you realize you’re headed toward a new and exciting destination. 

~ Susan Gale

Light in heart

If light is in your heart,

you will find your way home.

~ Rumi

What matters most in the end

In the end these things matter most: 

How well did you love? 

How fully did you live? 

How deeply did you let go?

~ Siddhārtha

Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all – oneself.
Nobody knows his own frontiers…
I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

~ Louis Kahan

Being a woman

Moters portretas

Turėtų būti leista pasirinkti. 

Keistis, kad tik niekas nepasikeistų. 

Tai lengva, neįmanoma, sunku, galima pamėginti. 

Jos akys, jei reikia, tai pilkos, tai mėlynos, 

juodos, džiaugsmingos, be priežasties pilnos ašarų. 

Guli su juo kaip pirma pasitaikiusi, pasauly vienintelė. 

Vaikų pagimdys jam ketvertą, nė vieno vaiko, vieną. 

Paika, bet geriausiai patars. 

Silpna, bet pakels. 

Galvos ant pečių neturi, tačiau turės. 

Skaito Jaspersą ir moteriškus žurnalus. 

Nežino, kam tas varžtelis, ir tiltą pastato. 

Jauna, kaip visada, jauna, vis dar jauna. 

Laiko delne žvirblelį palaužtu sparnu, 

nuosavus pinigus ilgai, tolimai kelionei, 

kirvį mėsai kapoti, kompresą ir stiklelį skaidriosios. 

Kur taip lekia, ar niekada nepavargsta. 

O ne, tik truputį, nieko baisaus. 

Arba jį myli, arba užsispyrė. 

Dėl visa ko gero, negero, dėl dievo meilės. 

(vertė Kornelijus Platelis)

~ Wisława Szymborska

EN:

Portrait of a Woman

She must be a variety.
Change so that nothing will change.
It’s easy, impossible, tough going, worth a shot.
Her eyes are, as required, deep, blue, gray,
dark merry, full of pointless tears.
She sleeps with him as if she’s first in line or the only one on earth.
She’ll bear him four children, no children, one.
Naive, but gives the best advice.
Weak, but takes on anything.
A screw loose and though as nails.
Curls up with Jasper or Ladies’Home Journal.
Can’t figure out this bolt and builds a bridge.
Young, young as ever, still looking young.
Holds in her hand a baby sparrow with a broken wing,
her own money for some trip far away,
a meat cleaver, a compress, a glass of vodka.
Where’s she running, isn’t she exhausted.
Not a bit, a little, to death, it doesn’t matter.
She must love him, or she’s just plain stubborn.
For better, for worse, for heaven’s sake.

Being carefree

Blossoms

Here in my cottage I forget my loneliness Thanks to the blossoms. Only to find myself waiting For someone to show them to. ~ Tonna

Forgetting to go home

Since middle age I've been

A most enthusiastic Buddhist

Now that I'm old I’ve settled

Here in the mountain country

Sometimes I get so happy

I have to go off by myself

There are marvelous places

I alone know about

I climb

To the source of a stream

And sit

To watch the rising mists

Sometimes I come across

An old man in the woods

We talk and laugh

And forget to go home.

~ Wang Wei

Leisti būti

Pabaigoje visada yra pabaiga, kaip ir buvo perspėta, daugiau nieko. 
Todėl džiaukitės tuo, ką turite rankoje, džiaukitės pradžia ir neskubinkite dalykų – 
leiskite jiems būti taip, kaip ir jie jums leidžia.

~ Gintaras Grajauskas

Definition of Happiness

Ms. Hitchcock:

– What is your definition of happiness?

"A clear horizon, nothing to worry about on your plate. Only things that are creative and not destructive. That's within yourself, within me I can't bare quarreling I can't bare feelings between people. I think hatred is wasted energy. It's all nonproductive. I'm very sensitive. A sharp word said by say a person who has a temper if they're close to me hurts me for days. I know we're only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead and now you're going to create something. I think that's as happy as I would ever want to be."