April 30, 2012
The world is running out of geniuses: Einstein died, Beethoven went deaf and died, and I'm starting to have a migraine. ~ Unknown
April 29, 2012
To practice is to let go. ~ Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield (from "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom")
April 28, 2012
We don't have to let go, we simply have to not hold on. ~ Joseph Goldstein (from "Empty Phenomena Rolling On")
April 27, 2012
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~ Thomas Merton
April 23, 2012
I ask only to be free. The butterflies are free. ~ Charles Dickens (from "The Bleak House")
April 22, 2012
Enlightenment is like the
moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet,
nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great,
the moon is reflected even
in a puddle an inch wide.
The whole moon and the entire sky
are reflected in dewdrops on the grass,
or even in one drop of water.
~ Dogen
moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet,
nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great,
the moon is reflected even
in a puddle an inch wide.
The whole moon and the entire sky
are reflected in dewdrops on the grass,
or even in one drop of water.
~ Dogen
April 21, 2012
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ~ Rebecca West
April 18, 2012
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams, creator of Dibert
April 17, 2012
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury
April 16, 2012
English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. ~ James D. Nicoll
April 15, 2012
There is a paradox between great faith and great questioning. We need faith to anchor us and questioning to open us. With faith only, we might stagnate and become narrow-minded, with questioning only we might become disturbed and agitated. These two qualities balance and support each other. ~ Martine Batchelor (from "Principles of Zen")
April 13, 2012
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~ H. Jackson Browne
April 11, 2012
In the ultimate stillness
Light penetrates the whole realm;
In the still illumination,
There pervades pure emptiness.
When I look back on the
Phenomenal world,
Everything is just
Like a dream.
~Han-Shan Te-Ch'ing
Light penetrates the whole realm;
In the still illumination,
There pervades pure emptiness.
When I look back on the
Phenomenal world,
Everything is just
Like a dream.
~Han-Shan Te-Ch'ing
April 08, 2012
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. ~ Rudolf Rocker
April 06, 2012
The trigger for much of our anger is frustrated expectation. We sometimes invest so much of ourselves in a project that when it doesn't turn out as it should we become irate. All "shoulds" point to an expectation, a prediction for the future. We might have realized by now that the future is uncertain, unpredictable. Relying too much on an expectation for the future, a "should," is asking for trouble. ~ Ajahn Brahm (from "Opening the Door of Your Heart")
April 05, 2012
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ Douglas Adams
April 04, 2012
No matter how big you think you are in this world, at the end of the day everybody still has to wipe their own ass. ~ Howard Stern
April 03, 2012
When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.
~ Henry Rollins (from "High Adventure in the Great Outdoors")
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.
~ Henry Rollins (from "High Adventure in the Great Outdoors")
April 02, 2012
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. ~ Joseph Campbell
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