29 March, 2024

Sometimes



"Sometimes it is wiser to join forces
with opponents than to fight with them."

Napoleon Hill

28 March, 2024

On victory...

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“They have the guns, we have the poets. 
Therefore, we will win.” 

Howard Zinn

27 March, 2024

Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy


“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. 
Love. Character. Manners. Health. 
Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. 
Common sense. Dignity.”

Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart

26 March, 2024

Dvision and union....


"All that was forcibly divided will
once again, in time be reunited".

Somwang

25 March, 2024

I sit beside the fire


“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”

J.R.R. Tolkien

24 March, 2024

Time and Patience



“The strongest of all warriors are these two:
Time and Patience.”

Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace

23 March, 2024

There is nothing certain....

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"There is nothing certain, nothing except 
the nothingness of everything that is 
comprehensible to me, and the greatness 
of something incomprehensible but all 
important!” 

Leo Tolstoy

22 March, 2024

Convictions


"If everyone fought for their own
convictions there would be no war.”

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

21 March, 2024

On free will...

 

"If you really had free will, you
would not have been born."

Master Wei

20 March, 2024

An eternal stain...


“Be like Abel who said to Cain:
To strike you in self-defence, gives me pain.
For to take your life, what can I gain?
Your blood will eternally remain,
In all my days to be a stain,
Forever on my mind
and upon my brain.”

Mohamad Jebara
The Illustrious Garden

19 March, 2024

Your mental attitude

 

"Your mental attitude determines what 
sort of friends you attract."

Napoleon Hill

18 March, 2024

When you rest undistracted


.”We need to take all the problems we encounter as the path so that they do not really hurt us in this life. As Khenpo Gangshar explains: “While you remain undistracted in naturalness, it is utterly impossible to accumulate karma and you have cut the stream of further accumulation of karma. Although you are not accumulating (new) karma, do not get the idea that there is neither good nor evil to be experienced as (past) karma.”
When you rest undistracted within the realization of the nature of your mind, whether during the equipoise of meditation practice or during post meditation practice, you cannot accumulate new good or bad karma because you are not experiencing any clinging or any aversion. Due to this, you do not perform any actions with karmic consequences, so you will no longer accumulate new karma.”

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche