A Lover of What Is

The more clearly you understand yourself
and your emotions, the more you become
a lover of what is.

Baruch Spinoza

Disturbing Thoughts

We are disturbed not by what happens to us,
but by our thoughts about what happens.

Epictetus

What You Have Found is Your Own

To realize your true nature, you must wait
for the right moment and the right conditions.
When the time comes, you are awakened
as if from a dream. You understand that
what you have found is your own and
doesn't come from anywhere outside.

Buddhist Sutra

Heaven's Will

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The mind recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.

William Butler Yeats

Who of Right Mind?

The grain of sand gives itself entirely. Even though I may be totally unaware of it, it waits for the opportunity to show me itself and how it exists through me. It's patient, solid in its purpose, unchanging in its present identity; it doesn't pretend; it doesn't mind if I step on it, praise it, or belittle it; it remains what it is, without disguise or deceit; it is perfectly allowing, doesn't resist the name I give it, lets itself be whatever I call it. Who of right mind wouldn't bow to such a consciousness?

Byron Katie

Nothing But a Mess

Teachers and the teachings are responsible for this mess in this world. All those messiahs have created nothing but a mess in this world. And the politicians are the inheritors of that culture. There is no use blaming them and calling them corrupt. They (the spiritual teachers) were corrupted. The man who taught love was corrupt because he created a division in his consciousness. The man who spoke of "Love thy neighbor as thyself" was responsible for this horror in the world today. Don't exonerate those teachers. Their teachings have created nothing but a mess in this world, progressively moving in the direction of destroying not only man, but every species on this planet today.

U.G. Krishnamurti

It Goes On

In three words I can sum up
everything I've learned about life:
it goes on.

Robert Frost

Entirely Your Own

Just like Jesus never came to his truth by listening
to some other Jesus and the Buddha didn't have
his realization by listening to some other Buddha,
whatever truths you will come to and whatever
realizations you will have must be entirely your own.

Shiv Sengupta

No One Ever

No one ever went broke
underestimating the intelligence
of the American public.

P.T. Barnum

The Way of Freedom

Be free. Be who you are.
See that everything is already
resolved, here and now.
That is the way of freedom.

Salvadore Poe