Month: January 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh
We will miss your widsom but like you said – there’s no death ; there’s no birth; those notions are perceived perceptions…you are still here in spirit with us among us visceral in another form. Thank you for teaching us through these words which has no doubt helped many as it did me.:
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
“Love needs to be nurtured and fed to survive; and our suffering also survives because we enable and feed it. We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. If we’re feeding our suffering while we’re walking, working, eating, or talking, we are making ourselves victims of the ghosts of the past, of the future, or our worries in the present. We’re not living our lives.”
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Why ask? Boycott Starbucks. I will choose not to spend our hard earned $on a business that does not take care about their customers nor their own workers. We will not shop eat and drink at a place where we do not feel safe and protected. We cannot be at a business where we get the sense that our lives are not valued nor respected. What do you think?
Looks like I’m not the only one disappointed recent Starbucks decision to not mandate Covid measures recommended by public health medical advisory… a sign in the neighborhood expresses it well.