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1) Being young while old and old while young is agelessness. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
2) This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. -- John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914).
3) The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
4) If creativity is a habit, then the best creativity is a result of good work habits. They are the nuts and bolts of dreaming. From dust jacket of The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
5) The art of travel is learning to leave your little self at home. -- William Wittmann
6) Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking... asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. -- Edward de Bono
7) It is important than when death finds you, that he finds you alive. - African Proverb.
8) If not now, then when? If not here, then where? - Rabbi Hillel
9) There is great compassion in everyone; a Buddha and a butcher do not have different minds. There is real enjoyment everywhere, whether in a gilded mansion or in a reed hut. -- --Huanchu Daoren; Reflections on the Tao trans. by Thomas Cleary
10) The human condition: lost in thought. Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a immersion of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature. - Eckhart Tolle
11) Golf: it's a game that can't be won, only played. - From the Legend of Bagger Vance.
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12) Beyond common sense lies a universe of utter chaos, unrelieved nonsense, and riotous freedoms of expression. Under their influence, our universe is refreshed, and we begin to reinvent our relations to the world. - Mission Statement, Museum of Laughter, Montreal, Quebec.
13) And a Zen the guy says. . . A Buddhist approaches a hot dog vendor and says: "Make me one with everything."
He gives the vendor a $20 bill and waits. Finally he asks, "Where's my change?"
Says the vendor: "All change must come from within."
14) When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. - Eckhart Tolle
15) Always forward, never straight. From Bill Rudolph's friend.
16) "The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas." -- Aldous Huxley; On Silence; 1946.
17) And all they that heard [it] wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered [them] in her heart. Luke 2:18,19
18) The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional love and readiness to celebrate life at any moment often contrast sharply with the inner state of the dog's owner -- depressed, anxious, burdened by problems, lost in thought, not present in the only place and only time there is: Here and Now. One wonders: living with this person, how does the dog manage to remain so sane, so joyous? Eckhart Tolle - Stillness Speaks
19) You didn't create your body, nor are you able to control the body's functions. An intelligence greater than the human mind is at work. It is the same intelligence that sustains all of nature. You cannot get any closer to that intelligence than by being aware of your own inner energy field -- by feeling the aliveness, the animating presence within the body. Tolle - Stillness Speaks
20) In the depths of meditation, sages
Saw within themselves the Lord of Love,
Who dwells in the heart of every creature.
Deep in the hearts of all he dwells, hidden
Behind the gunas of law, energy,
And inertia. He is One. He it is
Who rules over time, space, and causality.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad
21) The earth is crammed with heaven. Sherrill's friend.
22) Anyone who doesn't eat a leisurely breakfast at least five days per week is a fraud. -- Ernie Zelinsky
23) wake up neo…
the matrix has you.
24) Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature -- the rustling of leaves in the wind, raindrops falling, the humming of an insect, the first birdsong at dawn. Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds, there is something greater: a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought. -Eckhart Tolle
25) You wouldn't think birds would be killed by baseballs, but it happens more often than you might suspect. - Suzanne Wittmann, Alki Beach October 2003
26) We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Teilhard de Chardin
27) When you say, I can't be powerful, beautiful, healthy, prosperous, AND happy... ask yourself, why would you choose anything less? -- Dr. Ruth Marcus
28) We are what we are.
It is what it is.
We are what we it.
-- Tom Robbins -- Villa Incognito
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29) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our face toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. -- Helen Keller.
30) There are no bad trips in Rocky Mountain Time (Zone). -- Timothy Leary?
31) Always aim for achievement and forget about success. -- Helen Hayes.
32) The story goes that Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, decided to use a prop, a Zen tool, for one of his sermons. Having gone up on a hillside to preach, he silently held up a flower. Everyone in the crowd below awaited his words. Everyone, that is, except one person, Kashyapa. Kashyapa smiled. He had caught on to something. Gautama walked down to the smiling Kashyapa, handed him the flower, and conferred upon him the honor, the power, and the task of being the first Zen patriarch. -- Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
33) Beauty is the expression of the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
34) Turn off your computer, Luke! Use the force. Obi Wan Kenobi
35) If the doors of perception were cleansed, man would see everything as it is: Infinite. - William Blake
36) You never know to whom you're talking. -- Bertolt Brecht Three Penny Opera
37) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz
38) Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Harold Thurman Whitman
39) Euphoria is cool but it doesn't bake the bread. - William Wittmann
40) I'm an orthodox eclectic. -- From The Secret Life of Bees.
41) You can hear silent things on the other side of the everyday world. --Secret Life of Bees
42) Maps are a way of organizing wonder. -- Peter Steinhart
43) The European writing I know rarely recognizes a power in the land that corresponds to a power of being, while one of the things that distinguishes American literature, especially in the West, is that you expect to see the land turn up in a powerful or a mysterious or an affecting way. - Barry Lopez
44) You can't learn less. -- Marshal Thurber
45) To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light. -Carl G. Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)
46) Have high intention and low attachment.
47) I am not my body.
48) I am not what I produce.
49) I am not my job etc.
50) I am more than …
51) Step One: Wake Up
52) To begin with, we never start to be grateful unless we wake up. Wake up to what? To surprise. As long as nothing surprises us, we walk through life in a daze. We need to practice waking up to surprise.
I suggest using this simple question as a kind of alarm clock: "Isn't this surprising?"
"Yes, indeed!" will be the correct answer, no matter when and where and under what circumstances you ask this question. After all, isn't it surprising that there is anything at all rather than nothing?
Ask yourself at least twice a day, "Isn't this surprising?" and you will soon be more awake to the surprising world in which we live.
Surprise may provide a jolt, enough to wake us up and to stop taking everything for granted. But we may not at all like that surprise. "How can I be grateful for something like this?" we may howl in the midst of a sudden calamity. And why? Because we are not aware of the real gift in this given situation: opportunity. -- Brother David Steindl-Rast from Heart of Gratefulness.
53) Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-- W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1951)
54) A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. -- Chinese proverb
55) If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. -- Warren Buffett
56) Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups. --Anthony Robbins.
Here lie short head twisters by Steven Wright. If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the guy who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by exact duplicates."
His mind sees things differently than we do - to our amazement and amusement. He can help us to break into new perspectives and perceptions.
57) Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
58) Half the people you know are below average.
59) 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
60) 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
61) A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
62) A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
63) If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
64) All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.
65) The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
66) OK, so what's the speed of dark?
67) How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
68) If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
69) Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
70) When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
71) Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.
72) I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
73) If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
74) Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engine.
Back to other writers.
75) Want to know the best way to make your dreams come true? WAKE UP! -- From Excess Baggage.
76) Ready Fire Aim. -- Tom Peters
77) What, then, is the right way of living? Life must be lived as play. - Plato
78) Don't ask a naked man for the shirt off his back.
79) Don't go to Radio Shack for bread.
80) Play is what I do for a living. The work comes in organizing the results of the play. - Anonymous wise person, computer architect.
81) How wonderful that we've met with a paradox. Now we have hope of making some progress. -- Niels Bohr.
82) Indeed, the very act of "seeing the paradox" is a the crux of creative thinking - the ability to entertain two different, often contradictory, notions at the same time. - Roger von Oech
83) If not now, when? Zen (Note: Some of the quotations get attributed to multiple traditions. That just means they carry extra power.)
84) What in this moment is lacking. -- Rinzai
85) There is no-where to go, and no-thing to do. -- Zen saying.
86) You don't even have to leave your room. Sit at your table and wait. Don't even wait. Be still, be quiet, and the universe will reveal itself to you, it has no choice, it roll at your feet in ecstasy. -- Kafka
87) "Sir," said Caspian, "will you tell us how to undo the enchantment that hold (these people) asleep?"
"I will gladly tell you that my son," said the Old Man. "To break this enchantment you must sail to the World's End, or as near to it as you can come to it, and you must come back leaving at least one of your company behind."
"And what is to happen to that one?" asked Reepicheep.
"He must go on into the utter east and never return into the world."
"That is my heart's desire," said Reepicheep.
-- CS Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
88) People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life....I think what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. --Joseph Campbell.
89) There must be more to life than having everything! --Maurice Sendak
90) A monk once asked Yun-men, "what teachings goes beyond the Buddhas and the patriarchs?" Yun-men said, "Sesame cake."
91) Do you feel your hairs standing on end? --Blue Cliff Record.
92) Lovely snow flakes,
They fall nowhere else.--Zen saying.
93) Among twenty snowy mountains
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird. -- Wallace Stevens.
94) How can you think and hit at the same time? --Yogi Berra.
95) Focus your attention on the now and tell me what problems you have at this moment. - Eckhart Tolle.
96) People have to be responsible for their thoughts, so they have to learn to control them. It may not be easy, but it can be done. First of all, if we don't want to think certain things we don't say them. We don't have to eat everything we see, and we don't have to say everything we think. So, we begin by watching our words and speaking with good purpose only. -- Rolling Thunder
97) The pursuit of happiness is wisdom and the pursuit of wisdom is happiness
98) The body's direct wisdom supersedes the rules. - William
99) The kingdom of God cometh not with observation; neither shall they say, Lo here! or, Lo there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. -- Luke 17:20-21
100) If they say to you, 'Look, the kingdom of heaven is in the sky' then the birds will get there before you. If they say 'It's in the sea' then the fishes will get there first! The kingdom of heaven is within you and outside you, spread across the land... -- Version 2
101) If your guides claim
That the Kingdom is in the sky,
The birds of the sky will be there before you.
If they say it is in the sea,
The fishes of the sea will be there before you.
The Kingdom is within you and without you.
When you know yourselves, you will be known.
Then you shall know that you are
Sons of the Living Father.
But, if you do not know yourselves
You are in poverty, and you are poverty.
a. Attributed to Jesus, Gospel of Thomas
102) This very earth is the Lotus Land of purity,
And this very body is the Body of Buddha.
-- Zen Master Hakuin
103) I am not a PhD. philosopher, I am a pirate philosopher cruising for golden ideas I can bring home to share.
104) Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise. -- Lankavatara Sutra
105) If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are. - Zen Saying
106) Mythology breaks the whole of life into a vast, horrendous Divine Comedy. - Joseph Campbell
107) If you are depressed, you are too high up in your mind. -- Carl Jung
108) We know that the moon is demonstrably not there when nobody looks. - N. David Mermin
109) To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. -- Zen Master Dogen.
110) Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction,
And is made up of Contradiction.
-- William Blake.
111) Start a huge foolish project,
like Noah.
It makes absolutely no difference,
What people think of you.
-- Rumi
112) Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway. -- Gandhi.
113) Art is frozen Zen. -- R. H. Blyth.
114) There is the poet to whom the muse dictates his chants, there is the artist whose hand is guided by the unknown using him as an instrument. Their reason cannot impede them, they never struggle, and their work shows no sign of strain. They are not divine and can do without their selves. They are like prolongation of nature, and their works do not pass through the intellect. - Guillaume Apollinaire
115) Theater takes place all the time, wherever one is, and art simply facilitates persuading one that this is the case. - John Cage
116) My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. -- John Cage.
117) That the world is, is the mystical. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
118) Of all the mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. -Buddha, The Parinirvana Sutra
119) How marvelous the creator is! What is he going to make out of you next? Where is he going to send you? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into a bugs arm? - Chuang-tzu
120) While living
Be a dead man
Be thoroughly dead -
And Behave as you like,
And all's well.
-- Bunan, Zen Master
121) Since death alone is certain and the time of death uncertain, what should I do? -- Stephen Batchelor
122) The meaning of life is that it ends. -- Franz Kafka
123) Who is it that is dragging this corpse around? - Zen Koan.
124) "The thing to do when you are impatient," he proceeded, "is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, of if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you."
-- Don Juan tells Carlos Castaneda to keep death over his left shoulder, Journey to Ixtlan.
125) Another holy fool of the Himalayas was the rascal Tibetan saint Drukpa Kunley. Through his outrageous behavior, Kunley taught people how to let go of religious formality and be open to all of life. Once, it is told, Kunley came to a village where the people were being very devout, bowing to this virtue or that deity. Kunley chimed in with his own litany, which included:
I bow to fornicators discontented with their wives;
I bow to crooked speech and lying talk;
I bow to ungrateful children;
I bow to wearers of the cloth who break their vows;
I bow to professors attached to their words;
I bow to tramps who reject a home;
I bow to the bums of insatiate whores.
-- From Crazy Wisdom by Wes Nisker
126) We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. - Chogyam Trungpa
127) The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes… Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its domination, the individual is pauperized. - Carl Jung.
128) Be humble you are made of dung.
Be noble you are made of stars.
-- Siberian Proverb
129) Life is a game with rule, obstacles and goals. And a time limit.
130) All scarcity is self imposed. -- Mark Victor Hansen
131) We create, promote and allow all the events in our lives. -- Jack Canfield
132) The Zen student asks the teacher, who am I?"
The teacher responds with, "Who's asking."
133) Another version, "Do I exist?"
"Who wants to know?"
134) Religion is the defense against the experience of God. - Carl Jung.
135) True life has no need to call itself spiritual - Mel Ash
136) Don't worry; please, please.
How many times do I have to say it?
There is no way not to be who you are and where. - Zen Master Ikkyu.
137) If I try to be like him, who will be like me? - Yiddish proverb.
138) The virtue most in demand by society is conformity. -- Emerson
139) List three beliefs you find that humans have that seem completely alien to you and that they consider normal.
140) We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
141) You only have need for two loves. The love of God and the love of the person standing in front of you now. Paraphrased from Jimmy Carter's Our Endangered Values.
142) A cable from Robert Benchly to his editor at The New Yorker. (Benchly's first trip to Venice, Italy.)
Wonderful city. Streets full of water. Please advise.
143) When did your first realize you are the rains teacher? -- Pronoia
144) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Neils Bohr
145) Do you treat this moment as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to get to that is more important? -- Eckhart Tolle from Stillness Speaks.
146) The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein
147) Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of a blackbird.
-- Wallace Stevens
148) Just being low down in a room tends to clear the mind. Maybe it's because being on the floor is so foreign to us that it breaks up our habitual neurological patterning and invites us to enter into this moment through a sudden opening in what we might call the body door. --Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are!
149) It's also helpful to realize that this body that we have, this very body that's sitting here right now in this room, this very body that perhaps aches, and this mind that we have at this very moment, are exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, and fully alive. --Pema Chodron, From the Wisdom of No Escape
150) Research shows that a kindergartner laughs 300 times a day; adult only 17. Holy Moly we have some catching up to do.
152) You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss
153) Strolling along the edge of the sea, a man catches sight of a young woman who appears to be engaged in a ritual dance. She stoops down, then straightens to her full height, casting her arm out in an arc. Drawing closer, he sees that the beach around her is littered with starfish, and she is throwing them one by one into the sea. He lightly mocks her: "There are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see, for miles up the beach. What difference can saving a few of them possibly make?” Smiling, she bends down and once more tosses a starfish out over the water, saying serenely "It certainly makes a difference to this one."
154) Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The resident prime minister admonishes him: "Peter," he says, "kindly remember Rule Number 6," whereupon Peter is instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to be interrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again, the intruder is greeted with the words: "Marie, please remember Rule Number 6.” Complete calm descends once more, and she too withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses his colleague: My dear friend, I ye seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6? .... Very simple," replies the resident prime minister. "Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so goddamn seriously.'" "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule.” After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?"
"There aren't any."
155) There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. - MARTHA GRAHAM, quoted by Agnes DeMille, Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham
156)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness; that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
and fabulous --
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people
Won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone,
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
Give other people permission to do the same.
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
157) THE TWO WOLVES
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that was going on inside himself.
He said, "My son, it is between 2 wolves.
One is evil: Anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,
guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
The other is good: Joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness,
benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith".
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one I feed."
Author Unknown
158) There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.
159)
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
160) The real issue holding hunger in place is the subjugation, marginalization, and disempowerment of women. Wherever you have abject hunger, you will see low status of women. But when there are resources in the hands of women, the kids eat. -- Valerie Harper for the Hunger Project
161) "Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows." - Henry David Thoreau
162) You can't learn any younger. -- Joelle's mother
163) Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. - John Lennon
164) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life . . .
-- Henry David Thoreau
165) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein
166) There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not give others absurd maddening claims upon it. -- Christopher Morley
167) If the only prayer you say in your life is: thank you, that would suffice. -- Meister Eckhart.
168) Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge
169) The real fun is just outside your comfort zone - Pat O'Bryan
170) Find people to pay you for doing what you love. -- Pat O'Bryan
171) From Julian of Norwich--in the 14th century!
Our good Lord answered all my questions and doubts by saying with full energy:
I can make all things well,
I know how to make all things well,
I desire to make all things well,
I will make all things well.
And you will see with your own eyes
that every kind of thing will be well.
172) Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring. St. Colum Cille (St. Columba of Scotland)
173) Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. -- Fredrick Buechner
174) People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh
175) Foolish ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as him most prized possession. - Buddha
176) Always we hope someone else has the answer. Some other place will be better, it will all turn out. This is it. No one else has the answer. No other place will be better, and it has already turned out. - Lao-tzu
177) It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands. - Gandhi.
178) We cannot put of living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. - Jose Ortega y Gasset
179) Happiness... not in another place, but this place... not for another hour, but this hour. -- Walt Whitman
180) Taking off your shoes is a scared ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It is a way of celebrating the holy ground on which you stand. - Macrina Wiederkehr
181) To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment. - Alexandra David-Noel.
182) Everybody asks me what I'm think about when I'm dropping in. You don't hear anything. You don't think anything. It just naturally happens. -Shaun White, Olympic Gold Medal Snowboarder
183)
It doesn’t matter to which god you pray.
Precious time is slipping away.
Precious time is slipping away. – Van Morrison
184) Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings. Heraclitus of Ephesus an ancient Greek philosopher 500 BCE
and a related one:
It's simple. You just take something, and then you do something to it. Then you do something else to it. And then something else. Keep this up and pretty soon you've got something? Jasper Johns, 20th C American Artist answering the question of what's involved in the creative process.
185) Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. --Roger von Oech
186) From Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh
BREATHING in,
I dwell
in the present MOMENT.
BREATHING out,
I feel it is a wonderful MOMENT.
187) The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. – Bruce Lee, Martial Artist Icon
188) Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. – Jack Kerouac
189) From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh
190)
Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a dream.
191) If there is any peace it will come through being, not having. – Henry Miller
192) Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. -- Voltaire
193) Zen Master says, “The trouble you have is that you think you have time.”
194) We think that in the process of so-called mastery, we’re going to become someone we’re not, or that we’ll realize something that will change us.
We may believe that we will in some permanent way transcend our monkey mind, get forever past personal history, or never make a mistake again. And, of course, all this is impossible! We’ll never be without our childhood, our monkey mind, or what we call our bumpkin nature.
What our Zen practice does do for us is help us realize that we are some much more than our bumpkin nature. In the readiness of time, we begin to come to terms with the vastness of our true Nature. – Genjo Marinello
195) Harmony, balance, rhythm. There you have it. That's what life's all about. -- George Pocock (1891-1976) who came to Seattle from England with the art of rowing.
196) If you slow down and take a look, you’ll find that there is always a particular thought that triggers any stressful feeling.
Any feeling of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought. -- Byron Katie from I Need Your Love – Is That True?
197) It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. The story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. – Patrick Rothfuss, from The Name of the Wind
198) The wise man knows it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. – Zhang Tzi
199) As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life. – Buddha
200) If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama
201) We must be the change we wish to see in the world. – Gandhi
202) The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every places is the center of the world – John Burroughs
203) …The sacred is in the ordinary… it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s own backyard… travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred—this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous. – Abraham Maslow
204) The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi
205) One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. – T.S. Eliot,
206) Good artists copy; great artists steal. – Picasso
207) Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. – Picasso
208) A long, long time is needed to be young. -- Picasso
209) I like to live poor... but with a lot of money. -- Picasso
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. -- Picasso
210) Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Picasso
211) There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Picasso
212) We painted like children in the face of nature. – Henri Matisse
213) When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise. – Henri Matisse
214) My advice is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. — Thornton Wilder.
215) If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Buddha
216) In one of the spate of dance movies of a few years ago, the beautiful woman asks the gorgeous man, “Do you know how to dance?”
“I’m Cuban, of course, I know how to dance,” he says.
This response reminds me of something I read about Bali. They have no word for artist. And that is because, like the Cubans and dancing, they presume that if you are Balinese, of course, you are an artist. – Reflections from William
217) From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone. -- Alice Walker Nov. 5, 2008 in a letter to Barak Obama.
218) Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
219) No matter how insignificant what you do may seem, it is important that you do it. -- Gandhi
220) You’re never too old to go to Space Camp, Dude. – from the excellent film, Stranger than Fiction
221) Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
– Rumi
Please, recall that Rumi was a Muslim, so kneeling and bowing five times a day was part of his day.
222) Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways. -- Neal Stephenson from Anathem
223) “Wealth is what you have left after you’ve lost all your money.” Bruce Muzik. Wealth is what you have left without all your money.
224) Simplicity requires ruthlessness. – Tim Ferriss
225) Eliminate before you delegate. – Tim Ferriss
226) I do into cut my life up into days but my day into lives: Each day, each hour, an entire life. –Juan Ramon Jimenez
227) "The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today."
228)
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake
229) Terrible or not, difficult or not
The only thing that is beautiful,
noble, religious and mystical is to be happy. Arnaud Desjardin
230) Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister under Queen Victoria
231) Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you. – Brenda Shoshanna
232) When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.-- Rumi
233) "Healthy Neural Map" = one that makes me experience the greatest possible joy while simultaneously protecting my survival and the survival of others. – Mark Joyner
234) If there was an event that was so super-extraordinary, so rare, and so fantastically incredible that it only happened ONCE every 7 to 10 BILLION years, it would still be infinitely more ordinary, routine, and credible than the passage of today. -- The Universe
235) The butterfly counts not months but moment, and has time enough. — Rabindranath Tagore
236) In prayer come empty, do nothing – St. John of the Cross
237)
Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its many moons,
Summer has cool winds,
Winter its snow,
If useless thoughts do not
Cloud your mind,
Each day is the best of your life.
--Wu-Men-Hui-Kai
Realizing this each day is one of my life goals. ; )
238) If you understand, things are just as they are.
If you do not understand, things are just as they are. – Zen proverb.
239) When you have the choice to be right or to be kind, always pick kind. Wayne Dyer
240) If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It’s a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you – the Mystery. The one that can never be solved – Tom Robbins
241) "Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." Brian Tracey
242)
I see the moon,
And the moon sees me.
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.
-Wisdom from the Parchute Girls
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