Your Biology is Your Biography
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. – Milarepa
To be enlightened is simply to be absolutely, unconditionally intimate with this moment. No more. No less. – Scott Morrison
Honen Shonin taught people that it was enough to simply recite Nembutsu. He firmly believed that true Buddhism should be able to be practiced easily anywhere and at any time….
One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon. – Zen Forest Saying
So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it. – Willy Wonka
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. – Mahatma Gandhi
He who binds himself to joy
Doth the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise. – William Blake
Life is just what happens to you,
While your busy making other plans. – John Lennon
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. – Ray Bradbury
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair – Chinese Proverb
Refusing to forgive someone is like drinking poison, and expecting the other person to die.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. – Deepak Chopra
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. – Lord Buddha
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir
One isn’t necessarily born with courage. One is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. – Maya Angelou
Where is the temple of God? In our heart. Therefore that’s where we have to go and meet Him. – Swami Chidvilasananda
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.- Andy Warhol
It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping each other, not destroying each other. – J. Krishnamurti
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. – John Quincy Adams
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true, or becomes true. – John Lilly
Live your life in happiness, even though those around you lead lives which are unhealthy, and wish to spread their illness to you. Be Happiness itself. – Lord Buddha
When you give a shilling to a beggar, do you realise that you are giving it to yourself?
When you help a lame dog over a stile, do you realise that you yourself are being helped?
When you kick a man when he is down, do you realise that you are kicking yourself?
Give him another kick – if you deserve it! – From “Why Lazurus Laughed” by Wei Wu Wei
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. – Anonymous
If you do something good, enjoy it, repeat it, and allow it to become a way of life.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. – Winston Churchill
