Philosophical ideas to get through hard times

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Night night

“Even if we’re not infected, the crisis is affecting our lives and loved ones in other ways such as connectivity, work, or physical and mental health. Beauvoir describes humanity as like stones in an arch: the healthier the stones, the healthier the arch. While our global arch is compromised by pandemics, it is strengthened by being generous, caring for the vulnerable, and supporting one another.” Skye Cleary

When l wake up in the morning time
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
Just one look at you
And I know it's going to be a lovely day
Lovely day, lovely day.....
Bill Withers. Rest in Peace. Thank you for the music.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon

We fall we break we fail
But then
We rise we heal we overcome
Night night x

"We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other-" -- Pope Francis

"and still I rise"

Maya Angelou

Stoics can be committed to doing right because they try to abandon self interest and instead do what everybody needs.

Epictetus advice on being alone.
"We have peace and we have liberty."

Another way of looking at things.

This is what Nurses do for us so I'm thinking of the ones who've paid the ultimate sacrifice today

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." Abraham Lincoln

"Courage is salvation "
- Plato

"Boldness be my friend "
- William Shakespeare.

May we travel hopefully. Till tomorrow. Good night.
"Sleep the sleep of the just. " Anon

Epictetus thinking

In times of stress divide your moment to moment concerns into 2 bins. The things you can control put into your small bin and the things you have no control over (which are many particularly at the moment) put into a larger bin and leave there. Just be responsible for your own actions and choices; that is enough.

Take care everyone today.
Dawn

My life matters = Slogan for our current times.
Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
The Eagles

I could identify with that above at the moment May. The chatter in my head.

My life matters
(Current Slogan).

Take care today.
Dawn

Hope you slept the sleep of the just last night.

I read and liked

"The storm has not come to stay. It has come to pass."

Sorry fell asleep dawn thought I'd posted

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Of you By Norman Maccaig.

When the little devil, panic
Begins to grin and jump about
In my heart, in my brain, in my muscles
I am shown the path l had lost
In the mountain mist
I'm writing of you.

When the pain that will kill me
Is about to be unbearable,
A cool hand
Puts a tablet on my tongue and the pain dwindles away and vanishes.
I'm writing of you.

There are fires to be suffered
The blaze of cruelty, the smoulder of inextinguishable longing, even
The gentle candleflame of peace
That burns too.

I suffer them. I survive.
I'm writing of you.

I took this from a book called The Emergency Poet by Deborah Alma. It is a bit downbeat but relevant too. I always found Easter a lonely time as a child, too many hard devotions for a small child; in latter years l had better Easter times but this is yet again a very different type of Easter for all of us.

Take care everybody from Dawn.

Good poetry Dawn22
Yes different kind of Easter for us all I think this year. I'm not religious at all anymore so it's a hot x bun festival for me. The x signifys a kiss in my household
Anyway heres some more Maya Angelou
^People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel^

She/He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough - Lao Tzu

Absolutely true

PAX to all.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Postscript by Seamus Heaney

And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore.
In September or October when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter; and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans,
There feathers roughed and rifling, white on white,
Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Unless to think you'll park and capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.

Dawn xx

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty"
Gandhi
Night night