Delight Springs

Monday, January 24, 2022

Breathe and pay attention

“Don’t pass it by — the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.” 

Henry was telling his friend Edith Wharton to write what she knew, to attend to and describe what she most directly encountered. Great advice, which I've also heard from another Henry and from the late great Buddhist sage Thich Nhat Hanh

Unlike his brother the radical empiricistMaster of prolix fiction probably wouldn't concede that sometimes, oftentimes, words are superfluous. It's odd how often we must remind ourselves: just breathe, just behold. 




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