Philosophical ideas to get through hard times

"Hope is a greater warrior than despair."
- Matshona.

let no man pull you low enough to hate him":
Martin Luther King Jr

"For the Stoic, the entire cosmos, with all its joys and pains, grandeurs and abysses was an eternally repeated cycle of creation and dissolution, without beginning or end and the highest philosophical virtue was the cultivation of perfect detachment, in a soul immune to the effects of time and nature alike."
- DB Hart.

If only to have this type of thinking in this day and age but rather challenging. Heavy thinking that someone gave me.
Dawn.

Pax
Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Give me the courage to change the things I can.
The grace to accept the things I can't.
The wisdom to know the difference.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and slaughters a visible Nature without realizing that this Nature he slaughters is this invisible God he worships. – Hubert Reeves

"The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be."

Glennon Doyle

Ressurection day tomorrow.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

"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

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

PAX to all.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Absolutely true

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

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^

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.

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

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."

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

My life matters
(Current Slogan).

Take care today.
Dawn

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

My life matters = Slogan for our current times.
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

"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

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

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

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

Another way of looking at things.