30 May, 2016

Tears and rainbows...


"If the eyes had no tears
the soul would have
no rainbow"

Native American Proverb

26 May, 2016

No Fool...


"He is no fool who gives what he cannot
 keep to gain what he cannot lose." 

Jim Elliot

25 May, 2016

Flowing heart....


“If your heart has blossomed & given birth to a wish for what can't be expressed, your mind not enmeshed in sensual passions: you're said to be in the up-flowing stream.”

Dhammapada
translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

24 May, 2016

Faith...


"Faith is trust. Faith is a deep sense of connectedness with Being."

Eckhart Tolle

23 May, 2016

Teaching with equanimity


"Monks, if people speak badly of me or badly of the teaching or of our order of monks, you should not because of their ill will hold any thoughts of enmity toward them or any spite, nor even be at all worried. For if you are angry or displeased with them it will hurt you more than them. Indeed, if you were to feel angry or displeased, would you then be able to know what is well intended and what is badly intended from others?" "No, we would not be able to know this." "So, if others speak ill of me or the teaching or the order, you should with goodwill unravel the untruth of what they have said and make it all clear to them, saying, 'For this reason, that is false; for this reason, that is untrue; these things are not within us."

Digha Nikaya

22 May, 2016

On true civilization...


"Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was the land 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was tame, Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery."

Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Sioux (1863-1950)

21 May, 2016

Speak...


The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.
The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
the rhythm of the sea,
speaks to me.
The strength of the fire,
the taste of salmon,
the trail of the sun,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.
And my heart soars.

Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh (1899 - 1981)

19 May, 2016

Being a rainbow...


"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

Maya Angelou


18 May, 2016

Impossible?


"Nothing is impossible, the word 
itself says 'I'm possible'!"

Audrey Hepburn

17 May, 2016

Wisdom & Virtue


"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, 
so virtue appears from good deeds, and 
wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. 
To walk safely through the maze of human 
life, one needs the light of wisdom and 
the guidance of virtue." 

Buddha

16 May, 2016

Success...


"A successful man is one who makes more money 
than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one 
who can find such a man. "

Lana Turner

14 May, 2016

The way forward...


"There are many ways of going forward, 
but only one way of standing still."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

13 May, 2016

Life....


"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

Albert Schweitzer

11 May, 2016

Where to go...


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead 
where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10 May, 2016

The future and the Now!


“The future, the worry, the regret, the anxiety – these are all mental events that do not have to be part of the difficulty of life; these can be transcended here and now.”

Eckhart Tolle

07 May, 2016

The eye...


"It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

06 May, 2016

The best Leadership...


"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, 
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will 
say: we did it ourselves."

Lao Tzu

04 May, 2016

Those who know it all...


"People who think they know everything are a 
great annoyance to those of us who do."

Isaac Asimov

03 May, 2016

On seeing...


"The way you see people is the way you treat them, 
and the way you treat them is what they become."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe