Concept
Time
That things take as long as they take, and that most of the hurry is yours rather than the situation's.
16 passages · 8 traditions
Astrology
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On retrogrades and timingMercury turns retrograde three or four times a year, and for about three weeks the sky suggests review rather than launch. The traditional advice is narrow and practical: this is a period fo…DivinationA divination practice
On Saturn transitsSaturn does not move quickly, and neither will this. When Saturn crosses a sensitive point in the chart it does not remove the difficulty; it slows everything down around it until the diffic…DivinationA divination practice
On the cardinal turnThe twelve signs are sorted three ways, and the one people meet last is mode. Four signs begin a season — Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn — and the tradition calls them cardinal. Four hold t…DivinationA divination practice
On the eighth houseThe eighth house is the one people flinch at when they first see a chart. It carries death, and inheritance, and everything held jointly rather than alone. Older texts simply called it the h…
Buddhist
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Majjhima Nikāya 63, the simile of the arrowSuppose a man was struck by an arrow thickly smeared with poison. His friends and colleagues, relatives and kin would get a surgeon to treat him. But the man would say: ‘I won’t extract this…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Saṁyutta Nikāya 15.3, “Tears”"Mendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. What do you thi…
Christian
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Ecclesiastes 3:1–8For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to ki…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Luke 12:16–21He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’…
Jewish
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Pirke Avot 1:14He used to say, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I care for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?"…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Pirke Avot 2:20–21"The day is short, the task is great, the laborers are sluggish, the reward is much, and the Master of the house is urgent." He also used to say, "It is not thy duty to complete the work, bu…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3:1–8To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to…
Research
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On practice changing the brainLondon taxi drivers spend three or four years learning the city's layout well enough to pass an examination called the Knowledge. When researchers scanned them, the rear part of the hippocam…ResearchA finding from published research
On sleep and the next morningAfter one night without sleep, the amygdala — which registers threat — responds about sixty per cent more strongly to unpleasant images. At the same time the connection between it and the pr…