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Shards of Truth |
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2011 |
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! - Hamilton Wright Mabie Posted December 25, 2011
When you are part of group, living for others, you broaden yourself. This is really family life. - Swami Prajnanpad Posted December 18, 2011
When we have seen Reality, there is not a grain of dust which has not a sublime meaning. - J. Vanderleeuw Posted December 11, 2011
If the butterfly had teeth like the tiger, it would never make it out of the hanger. - Banacek Posted December 4, 2011
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke Posted November 27, 2011
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy Posted November 20, 2011
The silkworm spins a thread and, thinking it will be safe, it builds its own tomb. Hate is the tomb we weave. It will not protect us from our suffering. Posted November 13, 2011
A duck with three wings and a loaf of bread is brother to the turkey. - Banacek Posted November 6, 2011
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. - Confucius Posted on October 29, 2011
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi Posted October 22, 2011
A truly wise person will not be carried away by any of the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, pleasure. - Nichiren Posted October 16, 2011
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Posted October 9, 2011
No matter how warm the smile on the face of the sun, the cat still has her kittens under the porch. - Banacek Posted October 2, 2011
Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Anonymous Posted September 25, 2011
Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens. - Carl Jung Posted September 18, 2011
Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted September 11, 2011
Even a thousand zloty note can't tap dance. - Banacek Posted September 4, 2011
Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin Posted August 30, 2011
We invent nothing, truly. We borrow and re-create. We uncover and discover. All has been given, as the mystics say. We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is. - Henry Miller Posted August 21, 2011
Practice and enlightenment are not two. – Dogen Posted August 14, 2011
When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it's not there for the sack races. - Banacek Posted August 7, 2011
If we learn to enjoy waiting, we don’t have to wait to enjoy. - Kanuaki Tanahashi Posted July 31, 2011
Do what is good and ask not what follows. – Kenko Posted July 24, 2011
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. - Korean Proverb Posted July 17, 2011
The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitters’ Picnic. - Banacek Posted July 10, 2011
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - Thomas Jefferson Posted July 3, 2011
Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them – undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. – John Muir Posted June 26, 2011
After you learn something, you must gradually change to your own way. Blind followers are dead; they do not do their own style. - Master T. T. Liang Posted June 19, 2011
But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see. – Edward Abbey Posted June 12, 2011
A wolf that takes a peasant to supper probably won't need any breakfast. - Banacek Posted June 5, 2011
A mountain is beautiful when covered in snow. When the snow melts, the green of the grass grows. With every loss, there is gain; with every gain there is loss. Posted May 29, 2011
The invariable mark of wisdom is seeing the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted May 22, 2011
In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. - Osho Posted May 15, 2011
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty Posted May 8, 2011
A wise man never tries to warm himself in front of a painting of a fire. - Banacek Posted May 1, 2011
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. - Emily Dickinson Posted April 24, 2011
The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. - Dag Hammarskjold Posted April 17, 2011
If I rely too much on teachers, better not to have teachers. If I rely too much on books, better not to have books. - Master T. T. Liang Posted April 10, 2011
Read the whole library, my son, but the cheese will still smell after four days. - Banacek Posted April 3, 2011
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. - Kahil Gibran Posted March 27, 2011
A mountain is beautiful when covered in snow. When the snow melts, the green of the grass grows. With every loss, there is gain; with every gain, there is loss. Posted March 20, 2011
Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? - William Blake Posted March 13, 2011
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. - Banacek Posted March 6, 2011
A [person of substance] ought, in respect to all things that he uses, be like a statue which one may drape with clothing, but which feels no grief and makes no resistance when one strips it again. It is in this way that you should feel towards your clothes, your books, your chamber, and everything else you make use of. - St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Posted February 27, 2011
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. - George Washington Posted February 20, 2011
To be alone without one to love is a waste of the body; to be not alone without one to love is a waste of a soul. - Caine-ism Posted February 13, 2011
Life is a strange school. - Earon Davis Posted February 6, 2011
A truly wise person will not be carried away by any of the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, pleasure. - Nichiren Posted January 30, 2011
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss Posted January 23, 2011
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted January 16, 2011
Even though a hippopotamus has no stinger, a wise man would rather be sat on by a bee. - Banacek posted January 9, 2011
Decide. Commit. Succeed. - P90X from Beachbody posted January 4, 2011 |
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