Which One

Pressure does two things - bursts pipes
and creates diamonds. Which one are you?

Brian Cook

I Am Quite Free

I have already settled it for myself
so flattery and criticism go down
the same drain and I am quite free.

Georgia O'Keeffe

That Is Enough

I exist as I am, that is enough.
If no other in the world be aware
I sit content, and if each and all
be aware I sit content. One world
is aware, and by far the largest
to me, and that is myself.

Walt Whitman

Mistakes of Others

No one has ever learned
from the mistakes of others.

Ram Tzu

We Are Not Born Men

We are not born men. We are born boys. Although
we may take the shape of a man on the exterior,
the transition into manhood is an internal process.

John Kim

A Walk Around the Lake

Sometimes the truth depends
on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

Abiding Nowhere

Develop a mind
that abides nowhere.

Diamond Sutra

The Better Angels of Our Nature

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.

Abraham Lincoln

A Different Order

Patience is the calm acceptance that
things can happen in a different order
than the one you have in mind.

David G. Allen

This Place is a Dream

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.
Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing
at what you thought was your grief.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi

You Are

You are the Buddha.

Adyashanti

Life Circumstances

Life circumstances have a way
of generously helping us forget
everything we know.

Judy Cohen

For Reals

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.

A Course in Miracles

No Hope for It

If at first the idea is not absurd,
then there is no hope for it.

Albert Einstein

You Won't Have To

Neo: "What are you trying to tell me? That I can
dodge bullets?
Morpheus: "No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that
when you're ready, you won't have to."

The Matrix

What You Believe

You will always experience what you believe and
nothing else. And this invalidates your experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Until I Realized

I used to think the brain was the most important organ
in the body, until I realized what was telling me that.

Emo Phillips

How Your Mind Uses You

I'm not pointing out how you use your mind.
I'm pointing out how your mind uses you.

Adyashanti

Limitations

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog -
he's limited by the space he lives in.
You can't discuss ice with a summer insect -
he's bound to a single season.

Chuang Tzu

Belief Required

"Reality" requires belief.
Which is why it's not possible
to not believe something.

Judy Cohen

Where You Want to Be

I think basically it's honest to strive for perfection.
The only thing is, you're already perfect. So it's striving
just to notice that you are where you want to be.

Byron Katie

Flying

Birds born in a cage think
flying is an illness.

Alejandro Jodorowski