Single Flower
If we could see the miracle of
a single flower clearly, our
whole life would change.
~ Buddha
Single Flower
Life
Life’s Challenges
Life’s Challenges
Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
~ Tara Brach
Great Joy
Great Joy
The kind of spirituality I value
is one in which you get great joy
out of contributing to life, not
just sitting and meditating,
although meditation is certainly
valuable. But from the meditation,
from the resulting consciousness,
I would like to see people in
action creating the world that they
want to live in.
~ Marshall Rosenberg
Loving-kindness and Compassion
Loving-kindness and Compassion
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference – in our own lives and those of others.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Problems
Problems
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence:
Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.”
― Bo Lozoff
Life Is Without Meaning
Life Is Without Meaning
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever
you ascribe it to be. Being
alive is the meaning.
~ Joseph Campbell
Love after love
By Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.