Each day is a little life.
Oh, how daily life is.
Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)
I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.
I am just an ordinary man.
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.
We're not show-business people. We have a life.
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
I will not be remembered in history. I have not been shot. I have not launched any great tragedy or victory. I have not borne any great defeat. It was a very normal - it still is a very normal - human life of a political leader.
My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.
It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.
It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.
Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
I am a normal guy.
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
