daily contemplation

"If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life."

~ Muriel Spark

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

~ Rumi

"One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is the feeling that the present moment is not good enough."

~ Pema Chodron