Stop talking, stop thinking,
and there is nothing you will not understand.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Stop
Stop talking, stop thinking,
and there is nothing you will not understand.
Seng-Ts'an
Saturday, March 9, 2013
My life
Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Love tells me I am everything.
And between the two
my life flows.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Friday, March 8, 2013
Joy
For the raindrop,
joy is entering the river.
Ghalib
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Knowledge
Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself
is far worse than ignorance.
Arabic Proverb
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Art
Art is not what you see.
But what you make others see.
Edward Degas
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Art
Art makes it hard to ignore truth.
Anne Lamott,
Help, Thanks, Wow
Monday, March 4, 2013
Strength
Our strength will continue
if we allow ourselves the courage
to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
Melody Beattie
Sunday, March 3, 2013
More to do with beauty
but our lives will only ever always
continue to be
a balancing act
that has less to do with pain
and more to do with beauty.
Shane Koyczan, To This Day
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Your Being
The only thing you really transmit
to another person is your Being.
Ram Dass,
Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Unsayable
This has always been the driving mystery
of all sacred wisdom:
The only thing worth saying are
those things that are unsayable.
Mark Nepo,
The Book of Awakening
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
To live
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the times comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods
Monday, February 25, 2013
Wisdom
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door
that's unlocked and opens inward, as long as
it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Mirror
When men created the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
He became more concerned with his image than with his soul.
Thus, he tells himself a story that aligns with the social image.
Stephen Covey, The 3rd Alternative
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Helping
Helping other people can be a cure not just for
those who are in need but for your soul as well.
Marinela Reka
Friday, February 22, 2013
Beloved
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Raymond Carver,
Late Fragment
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Journey
Mistrust no one who offers you
water from a well,
a songbird's feather,
something that's mended twice.
Always travel lighter
water from a well,
a songbird's feather,
something that's mended twice.
Always travel lighter
than the heart.
Lorna Crozier,
Packing for the Future: Instructions
Packing for the Future: Instructions
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Travel
Always travel lighter
than the heart.
than the heart.
Lorna Crozier,
Packing for the Future: Instructions,
What the Living Won't Let Go
What the Living Won't Let Go
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Story
The story that lives is the story that's told.
Colin Hesterly, When I Grow Up
Monday, February 18, 2013
On faith
Believing that your faith tradition alone contains God
is like believing the rain falls only in your cup.
John Shore
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Care
When people care for you,
they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughs
they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughs
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Discovery
Discovery consists of seeing
what everybody has seen
and thinking
what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Your adventure
Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.
Joseph Campbell
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Grace
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace –
only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us
where it found us.
Anne Lamott
Monday, February 11, 2013
Vulnerable
Those who are willing to be vulnerable
move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Seeing
On a clear day
I can see
so far
into
myself.
Richard C. Choe, Seeing
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Perspective
The most important power we have is
the power to help select the lens
through which we see reality.
David Brooks
Friday, February 8, 2013
Out of no way
God always makes a way out of no way.
Veronica Goines
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Perspective
How we see things determines what we do,
and what we do determines the result we get.
Stephen R. Covey, The 3rd Alternative
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Memory
The best things in life are
the people you love,
the places you've seen,
and the memories you've made
along the way.
Anonymous
Monday, February 4, 2013
Service
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Hope
When hope is not pinned
wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,
it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Whole Story
I don't know my whole story.
And if I don't know my whole story,
I can't heal myself.
Richard Wagamese
Friday, February 1, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Presence
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
Rumi
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Being you
The privilege of a life time
is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Living
The divine lives within you.
Live from your own centre.
Joseph Campbell
Live from your own centre.
Joseph Campbell
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Compassion
The purpose of the journey
is compassion.
Joseph Campbell
Saturday, January 26, 2013
I love you
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you.
Roy Croft, The Recognition
Friday, January 25, 2013
Yes
After the final no there comes a yes
and on that yes the future world depends.
Wallace Stevens
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Our only friend
The world speaks everything to us.
It is our only friend.
William Stafford
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Surviving
We're never gonna survive
unless we get a little bit crazy.
Seal
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
On the edge
Half the Sky 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
If you're not on the edge,
you are taking up too much room.
Bumper sticker
Monday, January 21, 2013
Awakening
How did I get so lucky
to have my heart awakened
to others and their suffering?
Pema Chödrön
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Future
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
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