Showing posts with label john burroughs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john burroughs. Show all posts

Monday, 16 April 2012

Quote of the Week - Burroughs


Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
- John Burroughs via Goodreads
The Midnight in Paris thing again.

Just be where, and when, you are.

Monday, 28 November 2011

Quote of the Week - Burroughs

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

- John Burroughs

Well, I don't mind saying, this is a tough one.  The concept keeps arriving in different forms lately, this one being the most succinct and eloquent version.  Being grounded, or seated, where you are, wrestling with the particular challenges of that, is not always so sexy.  As Mercury goes retrograde, though, it is exactly where we are that demands attention.

Working on it.