10.2.23

Thought

Whenever we have the feeling of being able to dominate ourselves, master ourselves, or become the lords of nature, what happens is that we do not really succeed in getting outside of nature or of ourselves at all. Instead we have forced our way of seeing these things to conform to an illusion that makes us think they are controlled objects, and in doing this we invariably set up a conflict inside the system. We soon find that the tension between our idea of things and things as they are puts us out of accord with the way of things.

— Alan Watts. What is Tao?

Quote

Poet Rumi on the nature of existence:  

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

Moment of Gratitude 

I’m grateful for the wonderful fall weather we had this weekend. 

What are you grateful for?

Happy Monday,

Val