The Influence of a Vital Person

We're not on our journey to
save the world but to save ourselves.
But in doing that you save the world.
The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Joseph Campbell

Few See the Flowers

Many eyes go through the meadow,
but few see the flowers in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It Just Blooms

A flower does not use words to
announce its arrival to the world;
it just blooms.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Decorate Your Own Soul

Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers.
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.

Luther Burbank

In Its Own Time

Every flower blooms
in its own time.

Ken Petti

The Toughest Roots

Even the tiniest of flowers
can have the toughest roots.

Shannon Mullen

Growing Through Dirt

Every flower must
grow through dirt.

Laurie Jean Sennott

What Have You Accomplished?

What does it mean to be insulted?
Stand by a rock and insult it, and
what have you accomplished?

Epictetus

Even on Cloudy Days

The flower that follows the sun
does so even on cloudy days.

Robert Leighton

The Teacher You Need

The teacher you need is
the person you're living with.

Byron Katie

I Have Others

Those are my principles,
and if you don't like them ...
well, I have others.

Groucho Marx

Minds Are Like Flowers

Minds are like flowers;
they open only when
the time is right.

Stephen Richards

It Just Blooms

A flower does not think of competing
with the flower next to it.
It just blooms.

Zen Shin

Flowers Don't Worry

Flowers don't worry about
how they're going to bloom.
They just open up and
turn toward the light and
that makes them beautiful.

Jim Carrey

Flowers Are Like Friends

Flowers are like friends;
they bring color to your world.

Unknown

The Flower of Humanity

Politeness is
the flower
of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

The Seeds of Today

All the flowers of the tomorrows
are in the seeds of today.

Indian Proverb

Don't Hurry, Don't Worry

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry, don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers
along the way.

Walter Hagen

They Show

Flowers don't tell,
they show.

Stephanie Skeem

No Matter How Many Weeds

If you tend to a flower,
it will bloom,
no matter how many weeds
surround it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A Gardener and a Flower

The very best relationship
has a gardener and a flower.
The gardener nurtures
and the flower blooms.

Carole Radziwill

What a Lonely Place

What a lonely place it would be
to have a world without a wildflower.

Roland Kemler

Smell the Roses

Take time

to smell the roses.

Proverb

Love is the Flower

Love is the flower
you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

Happiness Shared

Happiness held is the seed;
Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan

Neither Emotions Nor Conflicts

Flowers are restful to look at.
They have neither emotions
nor conflicts.

Sigmund Freud

The Earth Laughs

The earth laughs
in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wholeness is Achieved

Wholeness is not achieved by
cutting off a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.

Carl Jung

An Extraordinary Process

Aging is an extraordinary process
whereby you become the person
you always should have been.

David Bowie

Always Their Prisoner

Care about what other people think
and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu

Catching Up

It's not unusual for science
to catch up to art, eventually.
Nor is it unusual for art
to catch up to the spiritual.

Rick Rubin

An Architect of Your Experience

The fact that emotions don't happen to you -

that your brain is making them - and that your brain

is using your past experience as fodder for predicting

what's going to happen, has really big implications.

The first really big implication is that

you are an architect of your experience,

and that doesn't involve breaking predictions.
It involves seeding your brain to predict differently.

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Better to Have Loved

'Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Your Brain Constructs Your Experience

Your brain does not react to the world.
Using past experience, your brain predicts
and constructs your experience of the world.

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Look at It Again

Giraffes are giraffing, trees are treeing,
stars are starring, clouds are clouding,
rain is raining. And people are peopling.
And if you don't understand, look at it again.

Alan Watts

Not Who We Think

Who we think we are dies,
but we are not who
we think we are.

Anonymous

End Your Problems

Stop thinking, and
end your problems.

Lao Tzu

No Problem

No thought,
no problem.

Zen Saying

The Gift

Be still, my soul, and steadfast.
Earth and heaven both are still watching
though time is draining from the clock
and your walk, that was confident and quick,
has become slow.

So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
Love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience, Let God and the world
know you are grateful.
That the gift has been given.

Mary Oliver

I Think It Is Enough

What if I embrace my limitations
and stop railing against them.
Make peace with who I am and
what I need and honor your right
to do the same. Accept that all
I really want is a small, slow, simple life.
A mediocre life. A beautiful, quiet, gentle life.
I think it is enough.

Krista (last name unknown)

Become Alive Yourself

People have the notion of saving the world
by shifting things around, changing the rules,
and who's on top, and so forth. No, no!
Any world is a valid world if it's alive.
The thing to do is to bring life to it,
and the only way to do that is to find
in your own case the where the life is
and become alive yourself.

Joseph Campbell

Unspeakably Perfect Miracle

Every hour of every day is an
unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

Do With What There Is

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ernest Hemingway ("Old Man and the Sea")

Eternity is Right Now

When you realize that eternity is right now,
that it is within you possibility to experience
the eternity of your own truth and being,
then you grasp the following: That which
you are was never born and will never die.

Joseph Campbell

You Have a Life

Look and look again.
The world is not just a little thrill for the eyes.
It's more than bones.
It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse.
It's more than the beating of the single heart.
It's praising.
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life - just imagine that!
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe
still another.

Mary Oliver