Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere) arranging a window, into which people look (while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here) and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things, while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there) and without breaking anything. - e. e. cummings
"You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important." ~Ajahn Chah
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ~Maya Angelou
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. ~Phillip Adams The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step. ~Sri Aurobindo
There Is A Brokenness by Rashani There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, A shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow Beyond all grief which leads to joy And a fragility Out of which depth emerges strength. There is a hollow space Too vast for words Through which we pass with each loss, Out of whose darkness we are sanctified into being. There is a cry deeper than all sound Whose serrated edges cut the heart As we break open To the place inside which is unbreakable And whole.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~ Henry Miller
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion. ~Ajahn Sumedho
"Would any one of us undertake even a journey of a few hundred miles without knowing why, without having some purpose? And yet, so many of us live, undertaking not a chance task, but the great Task of life itself . . . and yet we ask not why." ~J. J. Van der Leeuw
"You are a player in this rigorous game of living . . . The first rule is: every player dies; none know when it's coming . . . Everyone has to play. The game goes on forever - or until you win. You win by finding death before it finds you. The prize - is life." ~Barry Long
When anger comes, set your machinery of calmness in motion to
manufacture the antidotes of peace, love, and forgiveness which
banish anger. Think of love, and reflect that even as you do not
want others to be angry with you, neither do you wish others to
feel your ugly anger. When you become Christ-like and look
upon all humanity as little brothers hurting one another ("for they
know not what they do"), you cannot feel angry with anyone.
Ignorance is the mother of all anger.
Develop metaphysical reason and destroy anger. Look upon the
anger-arousing agent as a child of God; think of him as a little
five-year-old baby brother who perhaps has unwittingly stabbed
you. You should not feel a desire to stab this little brother in return.
Mentally destroy anger by saying: "I will not poison my peace with
anger; I will not disturb my habitual joy-giving calmness with wrath."
~Paramahansa Yogananda
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