Eckhart Tolle
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Truth in Me
to fit in.
No plans
to walk with the crowd.
I have my own mind,
heart
and soul.
I am me
and it
has taken years
to realize
how important that is.
Robert M. Drake
The Very Few
People were always the limiters of happiness
except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway
Not the Truth
but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Anais Nin
From "Dogfish"
of my life, and anyway
I don't want to tell it, I want to listen
to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.
And anyway it's the same old story;
a few people just trying
one way or another,
to survive.
Mostly, I want to be kind.
Mary Oliver
Nearly Impossible
Be nearly impossible to offend.
Mark Manson
A Unique Phenomenon
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.
Where there's a way or path,
it is someone else's path;
each human being is
a unique phenomenon.
Joseph Campbell
Self-aware in Humans
dreams in plants, wakes up in animals,
and becomes self-aware in humans.
Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi
The Religion of Solitude
the more it will incline towards
the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
No Escape
is central to the art of loving.
When we can be alone,
we can be with others without them
as a means of escape.
bell hooks
Dissolve into the Observing
in conflict with the observed.
This is resolved when
the observer is also the observed and
the two dissolve into the observing.
wu'hsin
Three Things
to three things:
everything changes,
everything is connected,
pay attention.
Jane Hirshfield
No Suffering Can Hold the Truth
You Don't Need It
that you need something you don't have.
The mere fact that you exist right now
without that which you think you need
is proof that you don't need it.
Byron Katie
Truth, in Yourself
Be still, and there it is - in the mountain, in the pine,
Lao Tzu
Everything is Interdependent
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you come to understand that you're connected with everything. That every little insect who comes buzzing around you is a messenger. And that little insect is connected with human beings everywhere else. You can hear: you become incredibly sensitive in your ears and you hear far-off sounds. And just by the very nature of isolating yourself and getting quiet, you become intensely aware of your relatedness to everything else that's going on. So, if you really want to find out how related you are, try a little solitude off somewhere, and let it begin to tell you how everything is interdependent.
Alan Watts
You'll Lose
You'll lose. But only 100% of the time.
Byron Katie
Hold on to Nothing
Peace holds on to nothing.
Jon Bernie
Thursday, June 13, 2024
By Oneself
by oneself, one suffers;
by oneself, evil is undone;
no one can purify another.
The Buddha
Rumi's Tomb
in the hearts of those who loved him.
Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi's Tomb
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Don't Know
Whatever you know is imperfect, fraudulent.
Zen Saying
Saturday, June 8, 2024
That's the Fun
but it's always going to feel as if you're not.
That's the fun, you see.
Alan Watts
Then There Is
then there is no mountain,
then there is.
The caterpillar sheds his skin
to find a butterfly within.
Donovan
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Resistance to What Is
This resistance takes two forms:
1) I want such-and-such to take place in order to be happy,
2) I don't want what is present and need it to disappear
Rupert Spira