Saturday, June 30, 2007

ANON

All things are like the river. We never enter the same river twice.

Friday, June 29, 2007

from "The Golden Age of Zen"

Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weigh on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find a thousand regions of your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

SHENG-YEN

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream, have faith in its course.
It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices.
Just follow it.
Never let it out of your sight.
It will take you.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Monday, June 25, 2007

LOY CHING-YUEN

An inch of time is an inch of gold. Treasure it.
Appreciate its fleeting nature.
Misplaced gold is easily found.
Misspent time is lost forever.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five

Friday, June 22, 2007

ANON

Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
After dinner sit awhile,
After supper walk a mile.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

WALT WHITMAN

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, and so on, and have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear, what remains? Nature remains.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

GEORGE ORWELL

If man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Joy is everywhere.
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass,
In the blue serenity of the sky,
In the reckless exuberance of Spring,
In the severe abstinence of grey Winter,
In the living flesh that animates our bodily frame,
In the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright,
In living,
In the exercise of all our powers,
In the acquisition of knowledge,
in fighting evils.
Joy is there -
Everywhere.

Monday, June 18, 2007

LYDIA M. CHILD

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

MAYA ANGELOU

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Friday, June 15, 2007

BUDDHA

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape
before me. I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich
river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness
and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

SIGURD OLSON

In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Chinese Proverb

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dr SEUSS

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Monday, June 11, 2007

SOCRATES

Every person has full knowledge of ultimate truth contained within. The soul needs only to be spurred to conscious reflection in order to become aware of it.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

RACHEL CARSON

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something
infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance
that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

J.M. BARRIE

Shall we make a new rule of life from today? Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

Friday, June 08, 2007

OSHO

You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

RICHARD BACH

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished - if you're alive, it isn't.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

THICH NHAT HANH

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between them. If we do, peace will have a chance.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

ANON

Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

Monday, June 04, 2007

OG MANDINO

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labour.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

Let us be respectfully reminded - life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by, and with it our only chance. Each of us must aspire to awaken. Be aware. Do not squander our life.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

ALAN WATTS

Normally we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Friday, June 01, 2007

HENRY DRUMMOND

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!