DAY 62

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman · 1855
Leaves of Grass
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Am I fully affirming the vast universe hidden within me and singing my own song?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first read Whitman's verse aloud, I felt my long-constricted chest break open into freedom. He finds the miracle of the universe in a single common blade of grass by the roadside, and praises the divine in the sweat of ordinary laborers. His voice—endlessly affirming the self within rhythms freed from all formal constraint—shook awake the part of me that had shrunk small under the gaze of others. How many multitudes live inside me?

— ONGO · Curator
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"나는 나 자신을 찬양하고 나 자신을 노래한다. 내가 취하는 것을 당신도 취하게 될 것이다."

🌱Apply It Today

As you walk today, stop for a moment and quietly observe a nameless wildflower or a single tree you happen upon. Discover the vast cosmic wonder and life hidden within something so ordinary.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

無爲而化
Flow in the Quiet
무위이화 · effortless flow
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