Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels

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May 25, 2017 a project of ServiceSpace We can live any way we want. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. - Annie Dillard - Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels Annie Dillard tells us we could learn from weasels "something of the purity of living in the physical sense and the dignity of living without bias or motive...open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will...yielding, not fighting. A weasel doesn't "attack" anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity." { read more } Be The Change Think about what's really important to you, then take a moment to do as Annie suggests, to "grasp your one necessity and not let it go." COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Disease of Being Busy The Benefits of Learning to Be Kind to Yourself A Yuletide Gift of Kindness The Top 10 Happiest Countries 10 Ways to Have A Better Conversation Teen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have to Eat Alone Music And The Developing Brain The End of Solitude DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 243,733 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More