Monday 15 December 2014

Täydellisyydestä

"Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement."

Shunryu Suzuki

Thursday 11 December 2014

Muutoksesta

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake 
is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

Pema Chödrön

Sunday 7 December 2014

Luottamuksesta

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float."

Alan Watts

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Elossaolosta

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Thurman.

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Pehmeydestä

"Soft shoulders"

Eilen bongailtuja keltaisenvirallisia liikennemerkkejä tien reunassa erämaassa (yleensä "Soft edges"). Hymyilytti ja teki mieli halata niitä reiskoja, jotka keksivät laittaa tekstin noin kauniiksi!

Sunday 7 September 2014

Rakkaudesta (ja viinistä)

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

Eduardo Galeano

Monday 4 August 2014

Luovuudesta

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

Tuesday 22 July 2014

Minusta

"Minä en ole mitään.
Minusta ei koskaan tule mitään.
En jaksa haluta olla mitään.
Paitsi että minussa on kaikki maailman unelmat."

Fernando Pessoan runosta Tupakkakauppa kirjassa En minä aina ole sama

Sunday 29 June 2014

Rakkaudesta

"The happiness of love is a shooting meteor;
the pain of love is the darkness following."

Yiyun Lin novellista Extra

Thursday 26 June 2014

Kauneudesta

"Judge your beauty not by the number of people who look at you,
but by the number of people who smile at you."

Afrikkalainen sanonta

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Luonnosta

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday 21 June 2014

Murehtimisesta

"Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?"

Rumi

Monday 9 June 2014

Saturday 24 May 2014

Kirjoista

"A book is 
a garden,
an orchard,
a storehouse,
a party,
a counsellor,
a multitude of counsellors."

Henry Ward Beecher

Sunday 18 May 2014

Merestä ja meistä

"The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth,
it can lie down like silk breathing
or toss havoc shoreward; it can give

gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth
like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can
sweet-talk entirely. As I can too,

and so, no doubt, can you, and you."

Mary Oliverin runo The Poet Compares Human Nature to the Ocean from Which We Came.

Tuesday 13 May 2014

Tarpeista

"Elämä toteutuu meissä,
nainen työssä ja lapsissa,
ei kenenkään tarvitse lähteä
mitään toteuttamaan.
Paljoa et tarvitse:
hiljaisuuden, luonnon, lähimmäiset,
järjestys on tämä
jotta luopuminen helpottuisi."

Ote Helena Anhavan runosta.

Saturday 3 May 2014

Loppujen lopuksi

"In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved,
how gently you lived,
and how gracefully you let go of things
not meant for you."

Buddha

Friday 2 May 2014

Avartumisesta

"Kahlasin veteen miettivin jaloin.
Katselin kauan. Nähdä aloin."

Aila Meriluodon runosta Kahlaajatyttö

Kiitollisuudesta

"Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you."

Rumi

Friday 25 April 2014

Oikeasta suunnasta

"Hyvyyden ja kauneuden kaipuu on terve merkki ihmisessä."

Tommy Tabermannin kolumnista Kaapista ulos!

Valosta(mme)

"I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely or in darkness,
the astonishing light
of your own being."


Shirazi Hafizin runosta My Brilliant Image

Sunday 20 April 2014

Parantumisesta

"Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means that it no longer controls our lives."

Saturday 12 April 2014

Tekemisestä

"Life begets life.
Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself
that one becomes rich."

Sarah Bernhardt

Thursday 10 April 2014

Elämänilosta

"Tänä vuonna etelässä
syksyn alkaessa
minä sukellan mereen,
hiekkaan, aurinkoon,
minä sukellan puihin.
Niin kuin hunajan
makeus täyttää omenan
niin kuin taivas öisin
sadontuoksuisena
laskeutuu polttavalle,
tomuiselle tielle
niin minä sukellan
tähtiin."

Nazim Hikmet (Ote runosta Tänä vuonna etelässä syksyn alkaessa)

Wednesday 9 April 2014

Friday 31 January 2014

Muutoksesta

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

Johann von Goethe

Wednesday 29 January 2014

Elämästä

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma, that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Umberto Eco

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Rakkauden voimasta

"One day someone will hug you so tight. 
That all of your broken pieces will stick back together."

Anonyymi

Tuesday 14 January 2014

Elämästä

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"


Mary Oliverin runosta The Summer Day 

Rakkaudesta

"Love is a travel. All travellers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same."

Shams Tabrizi

Monday 13 January 2014