Every now and again you meet a person who just stands out, who just seems to rise above the crowd of the ordinary. Perhaps these people are gifted with a special kind of charisma. Or perhaps they have simply refused to let the world erode away their uniqueness.
How do you cherish, defend and display the things that make you unique?
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein
Where do you find your most powerful experiences of the mysterious?
In the USA we celebrate July 4th as Independence Day, marking the start of country’s autonomy from England. But maybe it would be just as well to celebrate Interdependence Day, rejoicing in all the ways that all of us are inextricably bound to one another.
What will you do to celebrate Interdependence Day?
In this Irish monument, Gandhi crouches by the words of William Butler Yeats:
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
What precious dreams do you offer up to the world?
“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”
― Pablo Picasso
What helps you to see below the surfaces?
