Phosphorescence

by Julia Baird

dadirri and means, specifically, ‘inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness’.

Listening

In greeting each morning, remind yourself of dadirri by blessing yourself with the following: Let tiny drops of stillness fall gently through my day.’

Stillness Blessing

None of this was failure — it was persistence —

NOt failure persistence

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back. — Albert Camus, The Stranger

Camus

we should not have to retreat to the woods like Henry David Thoreau to ‘live deliberately’. And

Live deliberately

The philosopher Bertrand Russell put it best. The whole problem with the world, he wrote, is that ‘the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt’.

Sure and doubt