The Leaf is Singing Still

What can I say that I
have not said before?
So I'll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is
an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until all ends.
Take you busy heart to the art
museum and the chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf
when you were a child
is singing still.
I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,
and the leaf is singing still.

Mary Oliver

The Whole Universe

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

Already Perfect

There is nothing to achieve, there is nowhere to go,
there is nothing to be done. We are already divine
and we are already perfect - as we are.
No improvement is needed, no improvement at all.
God never creates anybody imperfect.

Osho

What Use?

Of what use is the universe?
What is the practical application
of a million galaxies?

Alan Watts

Because of Their Striving

Everyone is in pain because of their striving
to achieve something, but no on realizes it.
By no more than this instruction,
the fortunate one attains tranquility.

Ashtavakra Gita

The Most Difficult Thing

You don't want to be an ordinary person.
That is really the problem. It is the most
difficult thing to be an ordinary person.
Culture demands you must be something
other than what you are. That has created
a certain momentum - a tremendous,
powerful movement of thought.
That's all that it is. Otherwise it has no use.

U.G. Krishnamurti

Including Moderation

Everything in moderation,
including moderation.

Oscar Wilde