Life & understanding
Food for thought this one. Does it mean you are more alive when you are most baffled by it all?...
Life simile
What a surprising simile for life - at least in its easeful moments - likening it to a familiar tool...
Particles of human life
This week, glad to share fine metaphors both written by journalists. Here The Economist pays a suitably eloquent and moving tribute...
Ever-victorious life
In this vivid story set in war time Russia, a Communist officer is billeted in a humble household to give...
Evidence of life?
This response by Charles Ryder to his wife's question is striking. While change is inevitable, I am not sure it...
Located and alive
What a great way to spend a day, a perfectly Daoist state. Hoping you can also take in the brilliant...
The law of life
We need water for life, and life and water share a fundamental law: change. They may also share another, apparently...
Life wasn’t made to be …
This quotation has become a companion, a reminder that life is – or at least should be - bigger than...
A blank map
‘You’ll start with a blank map, that doesn’t do more than show roughly what’s water and what...
The last of your life…
Hart Crane died very young, making this comment all the more poignant. And if we ‘wrote each poem’ or letter,...
An unmapped river
A marvelous image for human destinies, usually well hidden no matter the efforts we make to discern them. Since this...
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