Nothing

Relax, nothing
is under control.

Buddha

Still, Alert Presence

When you wash your hands, 
when you make a cup of coffee,
when you're waiting for the elevator,
instead of indulging in thinking,
these are all opportunities for being there
as a still, alert presence.

Eckhart Tolle

We Are the Experience

We ARE the experience itself - 
as opposed to the one who
experiences it, or the one who
notices the experience.

Judy Cohen

Ecstasy at Your Feet

You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table
and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need
not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still, and solitary
and the world will freely offer itself to you, unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

What Can You Do?

When you can do nothing,

what can you do?

Zen Proverb

Now Here's the Weather

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter
is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration,
that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself
subjectively, there is no such thing as death,
life is only a dream, and we are the imagination
of ourselves. Now here's Tom with the weather.

Bill Hicks

Every Experience an Awakening

What if every experience was an awakening?
What if she could give up seeking because ...
This. Is. It. And if that was so, then ... 
what could any teacher or technique give her
that wasn't already here, that she didn't already have?

Judy Cohen (about herself)

Exactly the Point

We don't want to let suffering go. We think we do.
But we don't. Because we don't know who we are
without it. And we're afraid to find out.
Which is exactly the point.

Judy Cohen

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethoughts
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind starts
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

Part of the Problem

If you're not part of the solution,
you're part of the problem.

Attributed to Eldridge Cleaver
(Coined by ad agency owner Charles Rosner)

Everything in Relation

Nothing ever exists alone.
Everything is in relation
to everything else.

Buddha

Something to Clean Up

Guilt is not a terrible thing.
It's just like this alarm clock
that says there's something
for you to clean up.

Byron Katie

Second Opinion

I think therapy is like getting
a really good second opinion
on your life from someone
who's not in your life.

Lori Gottlieb

Acting

However many holy words you read, 
however many you speak,
what good will they do you
if you do not act upon them?

Buddha

Even Though

A flower falls, even though we love it;
and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen Zenji

The Truth is Already in Us

When we discover that the truth is already in us,
we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen Zenji

Be Awake

It is important that awake people be awake,
for the darkness around us is deep.

William Stafford

Right Where You Are

If you're unable to find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?

Dogen Zenji

Becoming Free

When you want to become free, then

your righteousness and your anger are

much less interesting than they used to be.

Ram Dass

Peace is Every Step

Peace is every step.
The shining red sun is my heart.
Each flower smiles with me.
How green, how fresh all that grows.

How cool the wind blows.

Peace is every step.

It turns the endless path to joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

That's the Message

When another person makes you suffer,
it is because he suffers deeply within himself, 
and his suffering is spilling over. 
He does not need punishment; he needs help. 
That's the message he is sending.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Time to Heal

To those who voted for President Trump,

I understand your disappointment tonight.
I've lost a couple of elections myself.
But now, let's give each other a chance.
It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric.
To lower the temperature.
To see each other again.
To listen to each other again.
To make progress, we must stop
treating our opponents as our enemy.
We are not enemies. We are Americans.
The Bible tells us that to everything there is a season - 
a time to build, a time to reap, a time to sow.
And a time to heal.
This is the time to heal in America.

Joseph Biden

Hugs

When someone hugs you,
let them be the first to let go.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Where You Are Right Now

This place where you are right now,
God circled on a map for you.

Hafez

Do Your Job

If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.

Lao Tzu

Freedom

Freedom is a sense of
complete denial of control.

Jiddu Krishnamurti