Thursday, April 11, 2013
8:04 AM
There
is a season for everything and we do not notice a given phenomenon except at
that season if indeed it can be called the same phenomenon at any other season
.
There
is a time to watch the ripples on Ripple Lake to look for arrowheads to study
the rocks and lichens a time to walk on sandy deserts and the observer of
nature must improve these seasons as much as the farmer his. So boys fly kites and play ball or hawkie at
particular times all over the State.
A
wise man will know what game to play today and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules as by
the almanac but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving
just as steadily and incessantly as nature's.
Nothing
must be postponed. Take time by the
forelock Now or never.
You must live in the
present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their
island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land there is no other life
but this or the like of this.
From Writings of Henry David Thoreau:
Journal "April 23, 1859 - Times and
Seasons" Google eBook Page 159.
From Thoreau’s “launch yourself on every wave” –
I am creating my Carpe Diem Power Pattern –
Carpe Diem Power Pattern:
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Peace:
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I
have things showing up to be done and I am doing them when they show up. I know to trust the one who guides me.
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Presence: Everything is now. I know there are things for future nows
that I can schedule and I do so when they show up. Otherwise I am only doing things in the
now.
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Fun:
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I
am doing things I want to do without the constraints of "have to"
or "should" - just because they show up and I want to do them. They are all forwarding my game (or perhaps
not and I don't know it) and any
otherwise, I would not do them
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Ease:
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There's
the Human Game, and my Move Game. In
both, I see that actions I take go with ease and if I can't shake dis-ease, I
just be with it and let it take me where it will. I am present to things that work or don't
work. I "enjoy" then discard
the things that don't work and I "enjoy" the things that do work
and discard them too. There's now!
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