Ralph

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.

Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”

Li Po

 

“The Birds Have Vanished Into The Sky And

The Last Cloud Drains Away.

We Sit Together, The Mountain And I,

Until Only The Mountain Remains.”

The Wise Buddha Said

“The wise person tells you where you have fallen and where are you yet may fall these are invaluable secrets! Follow them, follow the way. Let them chasten and teach you and keep you from mischief. The world may hate them, but good people love them. Do not look for bad company or live with people who do not care. Find friends who love the truth! Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy. The wise person delights in the truth and follows the law of the awakened. The farmer channels water to her land. The fletcher whittles her arrows. The carpenter turns her wood. So the wise person directs their mind. The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise person. She is clarity. Hearing the truth, she is like a lake, pure and tranquil and deep. Want nothing! Where there is desire, say nothing. Happiness or sorrow whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached. Do not ask for family or power or wealth, either for yourself or for another. Can a wise person wish to rise unjustly? Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on the side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise person, following the way, crosses over, beyond the reach of death. They leave the dark way for the way of light, they leave their home, seeking happiness on the hard road. Free from desire, free from possessions, free from the dark places of the heart. Free from attachment and appetite, following the seven lights of awakening, and rejoicing greatly in this freedom, in this world the wise person becomes themselves a light, pure shining and free.”