Dhammapada wisdom

"Those with initiative, mindful, clean in action, acting with due consideration, heedful, restrained, living the Dharma: their glory grows. Through initiative, heedfulness, restraint, & self-control, the wise would make an island no flood can submerge."

Dhammapada 

translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Success is...

“Success is not the key to happiness.

 Happiness is the key to success. 

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer

Grasping & existence

 

“When there is grasping, the grasper comes into existence. 

If he did not grasp, then being freed, he would not come 

into existence.”

Nagarjuna

"Mulamadhyamaka-Karika"

Real strength...

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is 

the attribute of the strong.” 

Mohandas Gandhi

On creation...

"Let what you're living right here and now in this environment be the process that evokes the desire that summons the Life Force that provides the creation of anything. Whatever you have the ability to conceive, this Universe has the ability to provide. Anything, without exception. So your work is on the conjuring of the idea, period. The Universe has the stuff to deliver the goods, and will."

Esther Hicks (Abraham)

Real Love?

We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude, concerned with the needs and happiness of others.... A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertile ground for the growth of love and wisdom."

Kathleen McDonald How to Meditate

Blessings...

"A blessing in the world: reverence to your mother. A blessing: reverence to your father as well. A blessing in the world: reverence to a contemplative. A blessing: reverence for a brahmin, too. A blessing into old age is virtue. A blessing: conviction established. A blessing: discernment attained. The non-doing of evil things is a blessing."

Dhammapada 

translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Winston Churchill...

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: 

it is the courage to continue that counts".

Winston Churchill

Wonderful angelic quote...

“Sometimes I hear a flutter in the middle of the night,

 and I know another angel just rose up in flight.”

Patricia Osborn Orton

"The Sound of Angels"

Giving to Those in Need

"May I become at all times, both now and forever

A protector for those without protection

A guide for those who have lost their way

A ship for those with oceans to cross

A bridge for those with rivers to cross

A sanctuary for those in danger

A lamp for those without light

A place of refuge for those who lack shelter

And a servant to all in need."

HH Tenzin Gyatso, 

the 14th Dalai Lama

On gratitude...

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget 

that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, 

but to live by them."

John F. Kennedy

Freedom...

"Where neither water nor yet earth nor fire nor air gain a foothold, there gleam no stars, no sun sheds light, here shines no moon, yet there no darkness reigns. When a sage, a brahmin, has come to know this for himself through his own experience, then he is freed from form and formlessness, freed from pleasure and from pain."

Udana

Love is?

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”

Eckhart Tolle

Je Mila's songs of liberation...

"Where there is great hatred, are the fetters of hell. Where there is great avarice, are the fetters of the tortured spirits. Where there is great ignorance, are the fetters of the beasts. Where there is great lust, are the fetters of man. Where there is great envy, are the fetters of the demigods. Where there is great pride, are the fetters of the gods. These are the six fetters of non-liberation."

Hundred Thousand Songs by Milarepa

A new Golden Dawn...

"The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations; a world longing for light again.

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom.

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one".

 Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Sioux (circa 1840-1877)

Thich Nhat Hanh wisdom...

"If I had supernatural power, I could take you up to the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha for a visit, or to the Kingdom of God if you are a Christian. I am sure that everything would be nice and clean there, with beautiful scenery. But once you were there, how would your footsteps be? Can you be sure that your footprints on the Pure Land would not show traces of worries and sorrows you carried from this samsaric, worldly life? If you take your worries and sorrows along with you and set them on the Pure Land, you would defile the Pure Land and make it much less pure! To deserve the Pure Land, you must be able to take peaceful and anxiety-free steps right here on this samsaric ground."

Thich Nhat Hanh 

Guide to Walking Meditation

On heart...

via Google images

"Certain things catch your eye,

But pursue only those

that capture your heart".

Indian saying

Innocence...

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."

Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Sioux (1863-1950)

On excellence...

"We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

American Indian beliefs....

"Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations."

Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Sioux (1863-1950)

A twist on our purpose...

"We are all here on earth to help others; 

what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

W. H. Auden