Far Greater Power

Sometimes letting things go
is an act of far greater power
than hanging on.

Alan Watts

Let Go and Let God

Let go and let God
have his way in your life,
and he will bless you exceedingly,
abundantly, above all that

you can ask or think.

Jeremiah 29:11

Answers to the Emperor's Questions

No merit.
Vast emptiness.
Nothing holy.
I don't know.

Bodhidharma

What Do You Have to Do?

What does the orange tree
Have to do
To grow oranges?
What does the sky
Have to do
To be blue?
What do you
Have to do
To be?

Wu Hsin

Being Effortlessly Aware

The brain can only assume its proper behavior

when consciousness is doing what it is designed for:
not writhing and whirling to get out of present experience,
but being effortlessly aware of it.

Alan Watts

The Clearest, Simplest Advice

If you're looking for the clearest, simplest advice about
how to stay in peace, this sentence would do very well:
"Develop a mind that abides nowhere."

Byron Katie

What is Essential

Here is what is essential:
All bodhisattvas should
develop a pure, lucid mind
that doesn't depend upon
sight, sound, touch, taste, smell,
or any thought that arises in it.
A bodhisattva should develop
a mind that abides nowhere.

Diamond Sutra

It Doesn't Matter!

Fall in love with some activity, and do it!
Nobody every figures out what life is all about,
and it doesn't matter. Explore the world.
Nearly everything is really interesting
if you go into it deeply enough.
Work as hard and as much as you want to
on the things you like to do the best.
Don't think about what you want to be,
but what you want to do. Keep up some kind
of a minimum with other things so that
society doesn't stop you from doing
anything at all.

Richard Feynman

Creating Real Art

Solitude is the only way
to create real art.

Renuka Gavrani

Never Lonely

You cannot be lonely
if you like the person
you're alone with.

Renuka Gavrani

Be the Soul

Wherever you stand,
be the soul of that place.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi

Be Undefinable

If you want to know yourself,

you have to be interested in yourself

for the rest of your life. And

you must remember one thing, 

you are beyond a particular tag.
You cannot be labeled.

Be undefinable.
Let them wonder who you are while
you create a personality for yourself

that makes you fall in love

with yourself every day.

Renuka Gavrani

Who Are You?

If you cannot figure out who you are,
figure out who you are not and
who you don't want to be.

Renuka Gavrani

Never Lost

Having no destination,
I am never lost.

Ikkyu

Learn to Keep Quiet

It takes two years to learn to speak
and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

Ernest Hemingway

Never Without You

If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred
minus one day so I never
have to live without you.

A.A. Milne

Sufficient Unto Itself

The wisest among us are those who live
without answers to ultimate questions,
understanding that each moment is
sufficient unto itself.

Robert Saltzman

That's It

In each moment, you see what you see, and
you understand what you understand, and that's it.
Someone else's understanding, no matter how convincing,
cannot be substituted for that.

Robert Saltzman

Become the Ocean

If you don't become the ocean,

you'll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

How Much Alive

It matters not where or how far you travel -
the farther commonly the worse -
but how much alive you are.

Henry David Thoreau

Self-hypnotized Believers

Often those in the role of teacher
are only self-hypnotized believers
themselves who were put into a trance
long ago by their teachers.

Robert Saltzman

Experience as Exploration

In wisdom gathered over time,
I have found that every experience
is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

Being Cut Free

There's a lot of freedom
in being cut free from
the need to like things.

Judy Cohen

Be Human

These spiritual people who are always saying,
"This isn't good enough. I want to go to the top
of the mountain," to me they're just so foolish.
They just haven't lived. They really haven't lived yet.
They have to get over the spirituality thing and
be human and then they'll get it.

Robert Saltzman