Calm51
“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”
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Calm52
“In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.”
Calm53
“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”
Calm54
“But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness.”
Calm55
“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”
Calm56
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.””
Calm57
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”
Calm58
“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”
Calm59
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Calm60
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”