Sunday, April 30, 2006

LAO TSU

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

A Gaelic blessing

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

Friday, April 28, 2006

CONFUCIUS

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall.

Thursday, April 27, 2006

MATTHEW ARNOLD

It is hard for a pure and thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded him by his fellow-creatures.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

GEORGE SAND

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning.
I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

ANON

What is Zen?
Zen is nothing else but living life as it is.

Monday, April 24, 2006

LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

Sunday, April 23, 2006

GEORGE MOORE

There is always a right way and a wrong way,
and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

ANON

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Friday, April 21, 2006

LU YU

The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns;
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?

Thursday, April 20, 2006

TAOIST SAYING

Those who know do not speak;
those who speak do not know.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

DOUG McLEOD

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Monday, April 17, 2006

DALAI LAMA

I look on religion as medicine. For different complaints, doctors will prescribe different remedies. Therefore, because not everyone’s spiritual 'illness' is the same, different spiritual medicines are required.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

ANON

Stop struggling for perfection, and recognise the perfection you already are.

Saturday, April 15, 2006

H.L. MENCKEN

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Friday, April 14, 2006

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

One lives and learns, doesn’t one? That is certainly one of the more prevalent delusions.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

LAURENS van der POST

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

JOHN MAGLIOLA

A small child looked at a star and began to weep.
And the star said "Child, why do you weep?"
The child said "You are so far away; I will never be able to touch you."
And the star answered "Child, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me now."

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

RUMI

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons.
Knocking on a door, it opens -
I've been knocking from the inside.

Monday, April 10, 2006

ANON

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only way to get a friend is to be one.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

A Zen Prayer

Breathing in, I cherish the life I have been given.
Breathing out, I cherish the life of others.
I breathe in, cherishing of the self.
I breathe out, cherishing of others.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

HOMER SIMPSON

Three little sentences will get you through life -
1. Cover for me
2. Good idea, boss
3. It was like that when I got here

Friday, April 07, 2006

NISARGADATTA

Wisdom tells me I'm Nothing.
Love tells me I'm Everything.
Between the two my life flows.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure in life is to do good by stealth
and be found out by accident

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

DESHAN

All the profound doctrines are but a speck of dust in a vast void.
All the great affairs of the world are but a drop of water cast into a bottomless chasm

Monday, April 03, 2006

WILLIAM BLAKE

It is right it should be so,
Man was made for Joy and Woe,
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the World we safely go.
Joy and Woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the Soul Divine

Sunday, April 02, 2006

JAMES OPPENHEIM

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance.
The wise man grows it under his feet.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

LUIS MARDEN

One lifetime isn't enough.
Just when you start to learn -
it's time to go.