Monday, July 24, 2023

Everything is Accomplished

Nature does not hurry, yet
everything is accomplished.

Lao Tsu

How Strange

How strange that Nature does not knock,
and yet does not intrude.

Emily Dickinson

Small Seed

From a small seed
a mighty trunk may grow.

Aeschylus

Making Art Inevitable

The object isn't to make art,
it's to be in that wonderful state
which makes art inevitable.

Robert Henri

Friday, July 14, 2023

Rooted in Being

Being always feels uncomfortable to
those who are addicted to becoming.
And the self-image generated by
perpetual becoming feels like an artifice
to those who know their true nature
to be rooted in being.

Shiv Sengupta

Find Their Own Way

When they think that they know the answers,
people are difficult to guide.
When they know that they don't know,
people find their own way.

Lao Tsu

Every Place is Paradise

Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer.
Except for our unquestioned thoughts,
every place is paradise.

Byron Katie

What We Haven't Undone

Life will bring us everything we need,
to show us what we haven't undone yet.

Byron Katie

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Everything is Now

Everything
is Now.

Alan Watts

Immersed In It

The fish, searching for water,
can never find it, although
it is immersed in it.

Rupert Spira

It Is

When I allow it, it is.
When I avoid it, it is.

Tony Parsons

The Whole is Greater

The whole is greater than
the sum of its parts.

Aristotle

Monday, July 3, 2023

Like Curious Children

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.
Never cease to stand like curious children
before the great mystery into which we were born.

Albert Einstein

Unhappy with What We've Got

We've made happiness a requirement and that
has made us unhappy with what we've got.

Judy Cohen

Seeking the Seeker

Those who search for happiness do not find it
because they do not understand that the object
of the search is the seeker.

Alan Watts

Grateful for What We Have

There's eight billion people on this planet right now
and what happens to Robert one way or another
doesn't really amount to much in the face of that.
If we could only see that for one moment,
a lot of this striving would come to an end
immediately and we'd just be grateful
for what we have.

Robert Saltzman

Just the Way They Are

What are the odds that the mind
wants to be transcended?
Why would it want that?
Doesn't it like things 
just the way they are?

Judy Cohen

What's the Problem?

How do you know you have a problem
and what's not OK with you as you are?

Judy Cohen