A Mindful Life

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving, not giving and taking.
–Unknown

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
–Rainer Maria Rilke

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
–William Hazlitt

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
–Eleanor Hamilton

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
–George Sand

Do give books — religious or otherwise — for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
–Lenore Hershey

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
–Jacques Maritain

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
–Charles Dudley Warner

In one minute it will be midnight. We’re packed, the house is straightened. The taxi company has been called and instructed to pick us up at 7:30 a.m. I’m waiting for my hair to dry a bit more, and then I shall go to sweet sleep. (After I eat one more Lindt truffle from a [...]

Oy!
Saturday we spent 5 hours driving around, looking at places that Husband had found on Craigslist. We saw a couple of them inside, one which was viable, but for the price, we decided we’d look more after we return from our trip.
We’re flying out tomorrow! Am I packed? Not yet. Organized, sorted, grouped, but not [...]