Posted 1:37 PM by Blah blah

Aliveness

"Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement."

-Nathaniel Branden

"I have found, at times of heightened perception...that it is not hard to fall in love several times a day; that is, to keep finding myself deeply moved not only by the people [around me], but also by the landscape, the sounds of the forest, the moon at night, or the changing patterns of wind, light, clouds, and rain. Although this vividness of perception may seem special, it is also quite ordinary. If it be magic, it is ordinary magic, because it is only a keener awareness of what is already there. Though we cannot hold on to such moments, they leave us with a sense of what life could be like if we could live more often at this threshold of vivid presence."

- John Welwood