You can
search the tenfold path
and not
find a single being more
worthy
of lovingkindness than yourself.
-- The Buddha
The breeze
at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go
back to sleep.
You must
ask for what you really want.
Don't go
back to sleep.
People
are going back and forth across the
doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door
is round and open.
Don't go
back to sleep.
-- Rumi
Don't ask
what the world needs.
Ask what
makes you come alive and go do that,
because
what the world needs is people
who have
come alive.
-- Howard Thurman
Friendship
with oneself is all important
because
without it one cannot be friends
with anyone
else in the world.
-- Eleanore Roosevelt
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
-- Lao-tzu
Only that
in you which is me
can hear
what I'm saying.
-- Ram Dass
Pain is
inevitable but suffering is optional.
-- multiple sources
Kindness
is the highest form of intelligence.
-- Brother Wayne Teasdale
Life is
a narrow bridge,
and the
most important thing
is not
to be afraid.
-- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
We cannot
solve our problems
with the
same thinking we used
when we
created them.
-- Albert Einstein
We did not
inherit the earth from our ancestors.
We are
borrowing it from our children.
-- Proverb from multiple cultures
Beyond all
ideas of right and wrong
there is
a field.
Meet me
there.
-- Rumi
This thing
we tell of can never be found by seeking,
yet only
seekers find it.
-- Abu Yazid al-Bistami
All the
way to heaven is heaven.
-- Catherine of Siena
There is
no path to peace.
Peace is
the path.
-- Mohandas Gandhi
At the root
of human wisdom is an understanding
that we
are, at once, both gods and primates.
-- Earon S. Davis
Life is
a strange school
-- Earon S. Davis
Depression
is a house you built long ago,
so you
could live with your rage.
-- Earon S. Davis
Spiritual
concepts find their clearest expression through
paradox
and metaphor.
-- Earon S. Davis
Wisdom,
like modesty, is something which,
when you
are most certain you have it,
you've
most definitely lost it.