The Next Note

When you hit a wrong note,
it's the next note that
makes it good or bad.

Miles Davis

As We Are

We don't see things as they are.
We see them as we are.

Anais Nin

I Know Nothing

The more I read,
the more I acquire,
the more certain I am
that I know nothing.

Voltaire

We Can Just Watch

You know what I love about this world?
No control. No control. Oh my goodness!
What could be better than that?
We are not the doer. We can just watch.

Byron Katie

Use It to Free You

All life has drudgery to it. In Zen, however,
even while you're washing the dishes,
that's a meditation, that's an act of life.
Sometimes the drudgery itself can
become part of the hero deed.
The point is not to become stuck
in the drudgery, but to use it to free you.

Joseph Campbell

No Sadness Without a Story

Until we know that death is as good as life,
and that it always comes at just the right time,
we're going to take on the role of God without
awareness of it, and it's always going to hurt.
Whenever you mentally oppose what IS, you're going
to experience sadness and apparent separation.
What is IS. You are it.

Byron Katie

We Lost Our Center

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts.
We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center.
So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Anais Nin