extremes................

 

All bad things in life come from extremes.  Too much of this.  Too little of that.

Derek Sivers, How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

nourishment.........................

 

In the kitchen, a monk is pulling down one small bottle after another, scattering spices across the communal meal he's preparing.  "I always get up early when it's my turn to cook," he says. "To think about color, think about texture."

    "I hadn't realized meals were so important."

    "It's a hard life." He looks straight at me. "The guys need something to brighten their day."

-Pico Iyer, Aflame

wild, nourishing nature..................

 

     If a plant is left too long in its grow-bag, its roots reaching the plastic will turn round and round and round, and finding no outlet into wild, nourishing nature, will, having nowhere else to go, re-enter the exhausted sour soil and, thriving till now, the plane, root and branch will begin to sicken.

     It would be foolish to suggest that Hebrew prophecy, Greek philosophy and science, Roman engineering and law are an exhausted sour soil, but it mightn't be at all foolish to suggest that they lack certain kinds of cultural nourishment that we now need.

-John Moriarty, Dreamtime