5 quotables about life and nature and reality

Here are some of the recent beautiful quotes and metaphors and advice I’ve been collecting:

• “The fragrance of flowers is their prayer.” — Bulgarian philosopher Peter Deunov

• “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” — Joseph Campbell, h/t Down The Rabbit Hole

• “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu, h/t Dense Discovery

• “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Dutch Theosophist Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw

• “When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness.” — Oliver Burkeman, h/t The Mental Health Update