“Jump into salvation while you are alive. What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death.” -KABIR

“One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you see.” -GIORGIO MORANDI

“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.” -MEISTER ECKHART

“Every morning I awaken torn between the desire to save the world and the inclination to savor it.” -E.B. WHITE

“A zendo is not a place for bliss and relaxation. It is a furnace room for the combustion of our delusion. What tools do we need to use? Only one. We've all heard it, yet we use it very seldom. It is called "attention."” -CHAROLOTTE JOKO BECK*

“The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it-exactly and completely.” -DAININ KATAGIRI

“The mind creates the chasm which only the heart can cross.” -STEPHEN LEVINE

“Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.” -THE BUDDHA

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.” -MILES DAVIS

“Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” -LAO TZU

“You can't make a date with enlightenment.” -SHUNRYU SUZUKI

“True enlightenment and wholeness arise when we are without anxiety about nonperfection.” -THE THIRD PATRIARCH

“And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.” -WALT WHITMAN

“The love of the heart is the candle flame that carries us through the road of darkness.”
-ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

“You are never too old to be what you might have been.” -GEORGE ELIOT

“The least of things with meaning is worth more than the greatest of things without.”
-CARL GUSTAV JUNG

“When you find your place, practice begins.” -DOGEN

“It is important to see that the main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking.” -CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

“I have to let go of the need to know so much. What we can know is so small---the holiness around is so large. Now I trust in simplicity, simplicity and love.” -HINDU SAGE

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” -JACK KORNFIELD

“When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.” -DOGEN

“The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.” -HENRY MILLER

“You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it.” -CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

“Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.” -SHUNRYU SUZUKI

“Zen is not safe. Letting go is a big risk. People are scared out of their minds to let go. To really let go of everything. To let go of everything!! That's the big one, isn't it?”
-MAURINE STUART

“Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.” -CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless.”
-T. S. ELIOT

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” -JAMES THURBER

“Well-being means to be fully born, to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and sadness or, to put it still differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in and to be fully awake.” -ERICH FROMM

“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.” -GRACIAN

“Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.” -HAKUIN

“How often have you been willing to look at your face in the mirror, without being embarrassed? How many times have you tired to shield yourself by reading the newspaper, watching television, or just spacing out? That is the sixty-four-thousand dollar question: how much have you connected with yourself at all in your whole life?The moment between before and after is called Truth.” -KATAGIRI ROSHI

“Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” -JACK KORNFIELD

“Don't go back to sleep.” -JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

“On the day you were born, you begin to die. Don not waste a single moment more.”
-DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

“The practice is what you throw yourself into. Unconditionally. The practice is the teacher. Your practice is your teacher.” -MAURINE STUART

“Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart may be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may be truly fulfilled.” -TIBETAN PRAYER OF MAKING DIFFICULTIES INTO THE PATH

“Most people think that we live in the actual world while we are alive, and that after we take the last breath we somehow wander into a vague realm of the spirit. It is a great mistake to see two separate realms. Instead, where we live is in fact the spiritual realm, a realm of many billion worlds, which goes beyond three, four, or even infinite dimensions. Then the danger is that we might think that this is a realm that is empty and boundless. Watch out!! It's all manifested right here at this moment. It is alive and kicking!” -SOEN NAKAGAWA

“Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the Divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable. It is true.” -THOMAS MERTON

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” -MARY OLIVER

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?” -SATCHEL PAIGE

“He who stops being better stops being good.” -OLIVER CROMWELL

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of anyone else.” -CHARLES DICKENS

“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.” -ERICA JONG

“Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.” -MARTIN BUBER

“Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.” -FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with the spring.” -GEORGE SANTAYANA

“The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man.” -ALBERT CANTUS

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” -JAMES JOYCE

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” -CARL JUNG

“There are no "good " or "bad " people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.” -TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.” -HEYWOOD HALE BROWN

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they many die of old age, but they die young.”
-ARTHUR WING PINERO

“Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.” -FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKI

“Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.” -CHRIS ROCK

“Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.”
-DAVID RIESMAN

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” -CHARLIE CHAPLIN

“There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action.”
-ALBERT CAMUS

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.” -FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” -ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

“If I'd observed all the rules, I 'd never have gotten anywhere.” -MARILYN MONROE

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”
-VIRGINIA WOOLF

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, Means to fight the hardest human battle and to never stop fighting.” -E.E. CUMMINGS

“I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one person gains, and if one person falls, the world falls to that extent.” -MOHANDAS K. GANDHI

“The important thing is to do, and nothing else; be what it may.” -PABLO PICASSO

“Don't play as if you've swallowed the metronome!” -NADIA BOULANGER

“In the end one only experiences oneself.” -FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

“There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.” -BILL VIOLA

“Don't chase after thoughts, and don't push them away. Just let them come in and go out like a swinging door.” -JAKUSO KWONG

“My religion is to live-and die- without regret.” -MILAREPA

“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible, for the fainthearted, it is unknown; for the valiant, it is ideal.” -VICTOR HUGO

“Magic doesn't come to those who don't expect it.” -DIANA VREELAND

“We are to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
-CHARLES BUKOWSKI

“The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but they set their sights too low and do.” -MICHELANGELO

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.” -SOPHOCLES

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” -NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE

“A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.” -DOGEN

“I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” -ALAN WATTS

“Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.” -PEMA CHODRON

“ Did you have a happy childhood? is a false question. As a child I did not know what happiness was, and whether I was happy or not. I was too busy being.” -ALISTAIR REID

“Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.” -SOGYAL RINPOCHE

“The wise man says, 'I am looking for the truth,' and the fool, 'I have found the truth.'”
-RUSSIAN PROVERB

“The singular is not particular; it is universal.” -MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

“You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.” -JUAN GRIS

“It's always just beginning. Everything is always just beginning.” -JAKUSHO KWONG

“The fundamental delusion of reality is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.”
-YASUTANI

“The true path to liberation is to let go of everything, even the states and fruits of practice themselves, and to open to that which is beyond all identity.” -JACK KORNFIELD

“Wherever you are is the entry point.” -Kabir

“Who knows this morning what will happen tonight?” -Chinese Proverb

“Beginning is not only a kind of action, it is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.” -Edward Said

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is
to kindle a light in the darkness of being.” -Carl Jung

“Life-how curious is that habit that makes us think that it is not here,
but elsewhere.” -Anonymous

“The great artist is the simplifier.” -Henri-Frederic Amiel

“One instant is eternity; eternity is the now. When you see through this one instant, you see through the one who sees.” -Wu-men

“Example moves the world more than doctrine.”
-Henry Miller

“You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working with out any real feeling. No two people are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.” –Billie Holiday

“Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.”
-Walter Lippmann

“First thoughts have tremendous energy. It is the way the mind first flashes on something.”
-Natalie Goldberg

“We feel and know that we are eternal.” -Edmund Spenser

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.” -Simone Weil

“Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Art does not reproduce the invisible; rather it makes it visible.”
-Paul Klee

“If on earth there be a Paradise of Bliss, It is this, It is this, It is this.”
-Firdausi

“Man's greatest misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thoughts, when he wants to.”
-Paul Valery

“Paradise is where I am.” -Francois-Marie Voltaire

“Develop interest in life as you see it, in people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
-Henry Miller

“Speed, Simplicity, and the relentless pursuit of Truth.” -Tom Todoroff

“Right now a moment of time is fleeting by. Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment.”
-Paul Cezanne

“All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on
the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking,
not many are seeing.” -Peter M. Leschak

“There is no reality in the absence of observation.”
-The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
-Claude Bernard

“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.”
-Anonymous

“This, then, is salvation: When we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.” -Meister Eckhart

“Time is not a line, but a series of now points.” -Taisen Deshimaru

“If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets
would open to you.” -Jalaluddin Rumi

“Be a light to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.” -The Buddha

“Don't be consistent, but be simply true.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“And all the loveliest things that there are come simply, so it seems to me.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Too close to be recognized, too deep to grasp, too easy to believe, too amazing to be understood intellectually.” -Gampopa

“Oh friend, awake, and sleep no more! The night is over and gone,
would you lose your day also? You have slept for un-numbered ages,
this morning will you not wake?” -Rabindranath Tagore

“Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. Even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.” -Shunryu Suzuki

“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or to acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.” -Buson

“When you can laugh at yourself, there is enlightenment.”
-Shunryu Suzuki

“First thought, best thought.” -Zen saying

“Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.” -Erich Heller

“Big-heartedness is the most essential virtues on the spiritual journey.”
-Matthew Fox

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”
-Lao-tzu

“Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening
to your inner voice.” -Shunryu Suzuki

“One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.” -Oscar Wilde

“Today means boundless and inexhaustible eternity. Periods of months and years and of time in general are ideas of men, who calculate by number; but the true name of eternity is Today.” -Philo

“There is a crack in everything God has made.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never let the world within assert itself.” -Hermann Hesse

“Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!” -Pai-chang

“It is everywhere.” -Chuang-tzu

“Throughout life, failure snaps at our heels like a great mongrel dog. The key to success is realizing that the dog is really a harmless puppy.” -Jackie Gleason

“The cup of life is for those who drink and not for him who sips.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson

“I learn by going where I have to go.” -Theodore Roethke

“A useless life is an early death.” -Goethe

“Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural.
We move between two darknesses.” -E. M. Forester

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall.”
-Herman Melville

“The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only she who listens can speak.”
-Dag Hammarskjold

“Beside the roadway a flowing of clear water, in a willow's shade I thought for just a short while to linger and take a rest.” -Saigyo

“The moment is the sole (soul) reality.” -Karl Jaspers

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
-Henry Miller

“Once the art of seeing is lost, meaning is lost and life itself seems
ever more meaningless.” -Frederick Franck

“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.” -Dean Acheson

“In resolving our need to love, we may not always succeed in resolving
our need to long.” -Anonymous

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
-Samuel Butler

“When we understand, we are at the center of the circle, and there we sit while Yes and No chase each other around the circumference.”
-Chuang-tzu

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
-Henry Ford

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
-Marcel Proust

“No disguise can long hide love where it exisists, or feign it where it is not.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
That is the point that must be reached.” -Franz Kafka

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand.”
-Josh Billings

“The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but
a reality to be experienced.” -Aart Van Der Leeuw

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.”
-H.D. Thoreau

“No person is your friend who demands your silence,
or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker

“Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life.” -Lao-Tzu

“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot

“Walking along the edge of a sword, running over jagged ice; you need take no steps--let go of your hold on the cliff!” -Philip Kapleau

“It takes a long time to understand nothing.” -Edward Dahlberg

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
-Frank Leahy

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be
vibrantly alive in repose.” -Indira Ghandi

“We pay for our mastery of denial.” -Tom Todoroff

“There is no wealth but life.” -John Ruskin

“The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives,
the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always
out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable
of living in the present.” -Chang-Tzu

“And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and
I am very happy with it.” -Ernest Hemingway

“How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing,
when the one thing needful for a man is to become-to be at last,
and to die in the fullness of his being.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.”
-Epicurus

“Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of
the nothingness of its being.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

“The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.”
-Chuang-Tzu

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“The universality of change, when completely understood,
is the seeing into the heart of all things, and the Mind that truly understands
is the Mind that truly seeks the way.” -Nagarjuna

“The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.” -The Upanishads

“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.” -Erich Fromm

“Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away,
and your original face will be manifest.” -Dogen

“All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name.
When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories
and understanding becomes orderly.” -Confucius

“An intense love of solitude, distaste for involvement in worldly affairs, persistence in knowing the Self and awareness of the goal of knowing-all this is called true knowledge.”
-The Bhagavad Gita

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
-Baba Ram Dass

“A man (or woman) is known by the silence he (or she) keeps.”
-Oliver Herford

“The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it,
but what he becomes by it.” -John Ruskin

“Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.” -Mahatma Ghandi

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.” -Oscar Wilde

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”
-Archibald MacLeish

“All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this brings true happiness.”
-Buddhist Chant

“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
-E. M. Forster

“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
-Abraham Maslow

“To try is a lie that makes you cry, and then you die.”
-Tom Todoroff

“Against an assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” -Mark Twain

“The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.”
-Emily Dickinson

“What we play is life.” -Louis Armstrong

“My life has been the poem I would have writ,
but I could not both live and utter it.” -Henry David Thoreau

“When we attain reality, it is seen to be neither personal nor impersonal.”
-The Song of Enlightenment

“One man with courage makes a majority.” -Andrew Jackson

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.” -Warren Buffett

“As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand.”
-Josh Billings

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments
that take our breath away.” -George Carlin

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough
to make them all yourself.” -Martin Vanbee

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal
to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” -Ellie Wiesel

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“However far modern science and (technology) have fallen short of their inherent possibilities; they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.”
-Lewis Mumford

“Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.”
-Stephen Batchelor

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
-Rabindranath Tagore

“You may delay, but time will not.” -Benjamin Franklin

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
-George Bernard Shaw

“Don’t look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.”
-Henry Miller

“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.”
-Leo Tolstoy

“Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death nor actual difficulty in our life.” -Shunryu Suzuki

“If you can’t be direct, why be?” -Lily Tomlin

“Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of all creation-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and scattering leaves.” -Basho

“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, a man bears a poem, either spoken or done.” -Henry David Thoreau

“You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.”
-Winston Churchill

“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.”
-Elvis Presley

“The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger
and play dice with death.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“I do not seek. I find.” -Pablo Picasso

“Let each one turn his gaze inward and regard himself with awe and wonder, with mystery and reverence; let each one work his own influence, his own havoc, his own miracles.”
-Henry Miller

“If it works, it’s true.” -William James

“Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.” -Swami Rama

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.” -George Bernard Shaw

“We now know that the moon is demonstrably not there when nobody looks.”
-N. David Mermin

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.” -Sir Walter Scott

“The face of the wise man is not somber or austere, contracted by anxiety and sorrow, but precisely the opposite: radiant and serene, and filled with a vast delight, which often makes him the most playful of men.” -Philo

“Every day you must say to yourself, Today I am going to begin.”
-Jean Pierre De Caussade SJ

“Journeys Bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.” -Jalal Al-Din Rumi

“You should let go and make yourself empty and quite, clear and calm.” -Ying-An

“Just as a mother protects her child with her own life, in a similar way we should extend an unlimited heart to all beings.” -Buddhist Teaching

“Life is not measured in years; it is measured in moments.” -Elie Wiesel

“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” -Baron de Montesquieu

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” -Booker T. Washington

“Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”
-Sidney Harris

“The spiritual life is, then, first of all a matter of keeping awake.” -Thomas Merton

“How I long to see among the morning flowers the face of God.” -Basho

“Just still the thoughts in your mind. It is good to do this right in the midst of disturbance.”
-Yuan-Wu

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust

“Everything is miraculous. It is a miracle that one doesn't melt in one's bath.”
-Pablo Picasso

“A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.”
-Thomas A Kempis

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
-Henry Wadsworth

“After all, if I can’t be myself, who can?” -Auntie Mame

“Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.”
-Epictetus

“Lives based on having are less free than lives based on either doing
or on being.” -William James

“Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.”
-Dogen

“It’s taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary
to understand everything.” -Rene Coty

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
-Margaret Lee Runbeck

“I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking myself what’s going to happen tomorrow. What’s happening today, this minute, that’s what I care about. I say: What are you doing at this moment, Zorba?…I’m kissing a woman. Well, kiss her well, Zorba! And forget all the rest while you’re doing it; there’s nothing else on earth, only you and her!” -Nikos Kazantzakis

“People are used by twenty-four hours. I use twenty-four hours.”
-Chao-chou

“Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.” -Eugene O’Neill

“Listen with your ear. Speak without forming words. Language turns against itself and is likely to cause injury.” -Jalaluddin Rumi

“It is no more surprising to be born twice than it is to be born once.” -Voltaire

“Until we lose ourselves there can be no hope of finding ourselves. We are of the world, and to enter fully into the world we must first lose ourselves in it.”
-Henry Miller

“Don’t drink by the water’s edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end.” -Jeanette Berson

“Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, a sunlit pasture filled with cattle and horses feeding, and haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.”
-Walt Whitman