The future is made up of only one substance and that is the present moment. By taking care of the present, you are doing everything you can to assure a good future. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

A place for everything, everything in its place. - Benjamin Franklin

When the crowded Vietnamese refugee boats met with storms or pirates, if everyone panicked all would be lost. But if even one person on the boat remained calm and centered, it was enough. It showed the way for everyone to survive. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost

So I got out early and nothing is hitting the same. I’ve been burnt out before my time away. But now I’m even more burnt out than before. When I first discovered #Bitcoin I found hope in a hopeless world. Now I don’t know?🤷‍♂️

However much fighting there is in the world, however much darkness there is, we must be able to serve as small lamps in that darkness. - 17th Karmapa

One faces the future with one's past. - Pearl S. Buck

I’m back for quick hello, and gone again very soon.🫡

See ya’ll in a few months

#veterans #RIP #MemorialDay #proudAmerican #warrior Happy Memorial Day. What did y’all do to honor our Veterans and fallen soldiers? I did 2 workouts. What doesn’t appear in the proof of work data, is during the morning weightlifting session I did 10 pull-ups and 15 dips between EACH SET. For my afternoon workout once the rain stopped I went to the local lake that has a paved walking trail, what doesn’t appear in the walking data is that I did 20 pushups every .1 of a mile, totaling 1,400 pushups. Not bad for a 45 year old construction worker who does mostly back breaking brick laying work. Just had a good workout with @fitbodapp. Here’s an extended guest pass to try Fitbod, free for 14 days: https://go.fitbod.link/XprO/lstm8697 Just had a good workout with @fitbodapp. Here’s an extended guest pass to try Fitbod, free for 14 days: https://go.fitbod.link/XprO/93942bpm

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Lynyrd Skynyrd · Pronounced' Leh-'Nerd 'Skin-'Nerd · Song · 1973

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. - Sahassavagga: The Thousands

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. - Nadia Boulanger

If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless. If I could not find peace in the midst of difficulty, I knew I would never know real peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh, At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. - Henry Moore

When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase. Cultivating nonaggression is cultivating peace. The way to stop the war is to stop hating the enemy. It starts with seeing our opinions of ourselves and of others as simply our take on reality and not making them a reason to increase the negativity on the planet. - Pema Chödron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. - Charles Kingsley

I have a lot of boomer family members I love dearly….. But overall I fucking hate boomers!

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation