September 2009
Let your ears hear whatever they want to hear; let your eyes see whatever they...
– Alan Watts, “Tao: The Watercourse Way”
August 2009
We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life...
– Henepola Gunaratana, “Mindfulness In Plain English”
Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life....
– Philip Toshio Sudo
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...
– Leonardo da Vinci (via reluctantbuddha & forgottencorners)
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Wife, daughters, friends.
This is for you.
Enlightenment is
Mistake after...
– Ikkyu
It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to...
– Kakuzo Okakura, “The Book of Tea”
We have to learn to read and write ourselves out of ourselves, and uncurl...
– David Abram
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is...
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be...
– May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude
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And if awakening is also already present, inescapably and everywhere present...
– Jane Hirshfield (from: Whisky River)
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing...
– Cormac McCarthy in “The Crossing” (via misstugui)
Working intimately with a teacher is the same as learning to stop shielding...
– Pema Chodron, from “Unconditionally Steadfast: An Interview with Pema Chodron,” Tricycle, Fall 1999
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It...
– Rumi (1207 – 1273), Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
– Jean-Luc Godard, “What Is Cinema?” Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952). (via remembranceofthingspast) (via fuckyeahfrenchcinema) (via kiyabluebird)
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What are you saying to yourself every day?
Is it positive, encouraging,...
– Ralph Marston (via myfengshuilife) (via fuckyeahzenmind)
You are like the rocks on the seashore that unflinchingly face the beating of...
– Atharva Veda (via forgottencorners)