“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.”
Og Mandino
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.”
Og Mandino
“Pain will leave you, when you let go.”
― Jeremy Aldana
“Just because the boat rocks doesn’t mean it’s time to jump overboard.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Keeper
“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.”
― Robert M. Pirsig
I don ‘t know who said this, but it is definitely worth saying a couple times over! And then saying again.
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
64th Challenge
Week of 05-03 through 05-09-2016
Guide for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
1. A prompt photo will be provided each Tuesday to be used as a base to your story. Please include photo prompt with your story.
2. Linking for this challenge begins on Tuesday and runs to the following Monday evening.
3. Please credit photo to photographer
4. The story word limit is 100 – 150 words (+ – 25 words). Please try to stay within this limit.
“It once spanned the expanse of the shore, out to some island or another.”
I squinted. “There isn’t an island.”
“Which is why its ‘some island or another.'”
Silence.
“So what happened? To the island?”
“It sank.”
“Sank? What is this Atlantis?”
He glanced at me pityingly. “It is Atlas, you know.”
“I thought Atlas held up the world.”
“What is this world but a bridge to the next?”
“So the myths got it wrong?”
“Only the artists, at least since man discovered the world wasn’t flat.
I turned, but he was gone. On the bridge, he waved once and leapt.
“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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