A piece of wisdom from
December 10, 2021 · Friday
The quote
“Don't think. Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
— Bruce Lee · Flow State
The concept
Hygge
The Danish art of cozy contentment, warmth, presence, and finding enough in small things.
Denmark is consistently among the happiest countries on earth, through long, dark, expensive winters, and Danes credit hygge (pronounced HOO-gah). It is not a thing you buy; it is an atmosphere you create: candlelight instead of glare, a wa…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Hygge. The Danish art of cozy contentment, warmth, presence, and finding enough in small things.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.22
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही॥
“As a person sheds worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so does the embodied self shed worn-out bodies and take on new ones.”
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