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Shards of Truth |
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2023 |
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Your way is very good for you, but not for me. My way is good for me, but not for you. - Swami Vivekananda Posted September 24, 2023
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. - David Thoreau Posted September 17, 2023
It's amazing to be back in New York and get the see the City as it is now ... and the tenderness of the people here. I mean, you walk around and there's the sense that we are moving right through living history - and we don't know what will happen - and, yet, our eyes are completely wide open. - Laurie Anderson, Live At Town Hall New York City September 19-20, 2001 Posted September 10, 2023
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. - Ovid Posted September 3, 2023
Real Practice has orientation or direction, but it has no purpose or gaining idea, so it can include everything that comes. - Shunryu Suzuki. Posted August 27, 2023
When one has truly learnt to love what is right, their eyes will take greater pleasure in it than in the fine colors; their ears will take greater pleasure than in the fine sounds; their mouth will take greater pleasure than in the fine flavors; and their mind will feel keener delight than in the possession of the world. - Hsun Tzu Posted August 20, 2023
And then there is the world of little things, seen all too seldom. Many children, perhaps because they themselves are small and closer to the ground than we, notice and delight in the small and inconspicuous. With this beginning, it is easy to share with them the beauties we usually miss because we look too hastily, seeing the whole and not its parts. - Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder Posted August 13, 2023
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus Posted August 3, 2023
The poor farmer makes weeds, the mediocre one makes crops, and the skilled farmer makes soil. - Zen Saying Posted July 30, 2023
When you even have a single thought about looking for a shortcut …, you have already stuck your head in a bowl of glue. - Dahui Posted July 24, 2023
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. - Henrik Tikkanen Posted July 16, 2023
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! - Dr. Seuss Posted July 9, 2023
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must ... undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine Posted July 2, 2023
I am summer, come to lure you away from your computer … come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches. - Oriana Green Posted June 25, 2023
There are two ways of exerting one's strength. One is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington Posted June 18, 2023
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me. - Jim Valvano Posted June 11, 2023
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. - Henry David Thoreau Posted June 4, 2023
In the aftermath, we are because they were. - RJ Heller Posted May 28, 2023
If it's not paradoxical, it's not true. - Shunryu Suzuki Posted May 21, 2023
If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands? - Milton Berle Posted May 10, 2023
Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. - Zen Saying Posted May 7, 2023
We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people. - Steve Goodier Posted April 30, 2023
… as long as you continue to see others as separate from you, a feeling of hostility toward them cannot fail to prevail. - Swami Prajnanpad Posted April 23, 2023
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. - Carl Sagan Posted April 16, 2023
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where you thoughts take you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted April 9, 2023
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. - William Arthur Ward Posted April 2, 2023
One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche Posted March 26, 2023
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. - Donald G. Mitchell Posted March 19, 2023
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. Sometimes you don’t need the things you “need” to enjoy the simple things, quiet times, friends, family. - Amish Proverb Posted March 11, 2023
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. - Joseph Addison Posted March 5, 2023
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there would be no concept of humanity. - Hermann Hesse Posted March 2, 2023
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln Posted February 19, 2023
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Posted February 12, 2023
Our task in this unpredictable world is to make music, at first with all that we have and then, when that is no longer possible, with what we have left. - Joseph Piscatella Posted February 5, 2023
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy Posted January 29, 2023
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach Posted January 22, 2023
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Posted January 15, 2023
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. - Seneca Posted January 8, 2023
... I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. - Neil Gaiman Posted January 1, 2023 |