Plato

"...we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know…"

A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master, received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

Chodron

"It's like being in the ocean when the waves are really rough and high. They knock you over and you find yourself on the floor of the ocean with your face in the sand. The sand is getting in your nose and your mouth and your eyes and the waves are holding you down. But then the wave recedes and you stand back up and you walk until the next waves comes in and knocks you down and the same thing keeps happening. And each time you just stand back up and after awhile it seems to you that the waves are getting smaller and smaller."

Rumi

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.  It will not lead you astray."

generations

I am You

and

You are Me

and 

Today we are 

Three

Joseph Sizoo

"If we could untangle the mysteries of life and unravel the energies which run through the world, if we could evaluate correctly the significance of passing events; if we could measure the struggles, dilemmas, and aspirations of mankind, we could find that nothing is born out of time.  Everything comes at the appointed moment."

Pema Chodron

"You are the sky.  Everything else is just the weather."

Lao Tzu

"Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?  Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?"

Ralston

"Mountains are the means, the man is the end.  The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man."

Paulo Coelho

"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once."

break through

"Sometimes we have to have a break-down to have a break-through."

Buddha

"In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved,
how gently you lived,
and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.  Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."

Daphne Rose

"Holding on is believing there is only a past; letting go is believing there is a future."

MLK JR

"If you can't fly, then run
If you can't run, then walk
If you can't walk, then crawl
But whatever you do,
You have to keep moving Forward"