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1. Hope is a waking dream - Aristotle 2. The wisest men follow their own direction - Euripides 3. Poor is the man, who's pleasure depends, on the permission of another - Lenny Kravitz 4. Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein 5. Everything you can imagine is real - Pablo...
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” –Elizabeth Stone
Cultivating the mind is very much like cultivating a crop. A farmer must know the proper way to prepare the soil, sow the seed, tend to the growth of the crop, and finally harvest it. If all these tasks are done properly, the farmer will reap the best harvest that nature allows. If they're done...
Thoughts Aloud Today, it really was written for me. It just goes to show that the meaning of everything we see, say, read and hear is all based on personal perception. It's about how we feel before we read it, when we are doing so, and after we've taken the words off the page and in to our thoughts....
"You know who you are. But does anyone else?" I know who I am. I know who I strive to be. I know all the bits in between. Does it matter if nobody else does? (With thanks to "I Wrote This For You")
From boingboing: Just in time for Banned Books Week, here's Philip "Golden Compass" Pullman on why book bans -- especially religiously inspired book bans -- are so futile and wrong: Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying to ban something – book, film, play, pop song, whatever...
I have spent many hours catching insects in a cup and taking them outside. We can do that. We can change our relationship to other living creatures. This is not to suggest that the answers are always clear-cut and easy. If termites are eating up your house, what do you do? Do you say, “Be happy,...
A sensation appears, then liking or disliking begins. This fleeting moment, if we are unaware of it, is repeated and intensified intocraving and aversion, becoming a strong emotion that eventually overpowers the conscious mind. We become caught up in the emotion, and all our better judgment is swept...
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddha compared faith to a blind giant who meets up with a very sharp-eyed cripple, called wisdom. The blind giant, called faith, says to the sharp-eyed cripple, "I am very strong, but I can't see; you are very weak, but you have sharp eyes. Come and ride on my shoulders. Together we will go...
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course...
One finds that no matter how sincere one's intention to be attentive and aware, the mind rebels against such instructions and races off to indulge in all manner of distractions, memories and fantasies....The comforting illusion of personal coherence and continuity is ripped away to expose only...
"It is my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess. It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once." –Barack Obama source
"I believe that these guys should be able to speculate and do anything they want to make as much money as they want in any way that they want...in the good times. And then when things go bad we should help them out so they can do it again later. Because I believe in the free market, except when it...
As Nick Brandt states in the Afterword of this wonderful book, "...there is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and Southern Africa." Paging through the stunning images he captured, one can't help but agree. From breathtaking panoramas to up-close and intimate...
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." –Thomas Carlyle
Some people do not know the difference between "mindfulness" and "concentration." They concentrate on what they're doing, thinking that is being mindful. . . . We can concentrate on what we are doing, but if we are not mindful at the same time, with the ability to reflect on the moment, then if...
The person that desires to have only pleasure and refuses pain expends an enormous amount of energy resisting life - and at the same time misses out enormously. He or she is on a self-defeating mission in any case, for just as we evade certain forms of suffering we inevitably fall victim to others....
Do not think that time merely flies away. Do not see flying away as the only function of time. If time merely flies away, you would be separated from time. The reason you do not clearly understand the time-being is that you think of time only as passing. In essence, all things in the entire world...
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and...
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