Henry David

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

MLK

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

Voltaire

"Every person is guilty of the good they did not do"

Acupuncture Is Like Noodles

"Wages without profits are fine with us, in part because we feel genuinely queasy about the idea of making a profit while practicing health care. We know that people may find us quaint for saying so, but we believe that there is a moral problem with making money off of human suffering. We need to be compensated for taking care of people, certainly, because it takes up our time and energy and prevents us from earning a living any other way -- but being compensated with a paycheck is different than setting up our business so that sick people pay more than they absolutely have to for care in order for us to accumulate money without working for it. Some acupuncturists whom we otherwise respect keep promoting the idea that everyone should charge their patients lots of money so that acupuncturists can become rich and give money away to charities who will then do good works; we find this a very weird and convoluted kind of altruism. If you want to do good, why not just do it yourself? With people you know? Right now, instead of waiting to accumulate enough money to give away to someone else to do it?"

pema

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From the awakened point of view, that's life. Death is wanting to hold onto what you have and to have every experience confirm you and congratulate you and make you feel completely together. So even though we say the Yama Mara is fear of death, it's actually fear of life."

Ancestors

It doesn't matter what you do.... As long as you do it with Love.

jared

"To find yourself all you have to do is look at the wreckage of your past...
To lose it all you have to do is laugh"

rogue

rapture

precipice

she

he

mordor

buddha

Hanh

"Without a spiritual dimension, we will not have the capacity to confront suffering, to transform suffering and to offer anything to life. A person without a spiritual path is a person walking in darkness. With a path, we are no longer afraid or worried."

What we Resist... Persists.

"If you bring forth that which is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

Pema Chodron

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."

Imprint

hDt

"If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed
And if you would find yourself,
Look to the land from which you came
And to which you will go."

da Vinci

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

thoreau

"live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each"

Huntress

I look across the open plain sun burning – glinting. 

I see the wildebeest chasing the lion.

Swarm intelligence propelling her forward and releasing her. 

No longer bound to her instinctual herding principle. 

She has awakened. 

She has left her children to be protected by her clan. 

She will no longer fight only when attacked. 

She will safeguard our future;

the lion senses this power shift and is overwhelmed. 

My huntress has caught her prey. 

She rips into Screaming Flesh. 

The sound eternally seared onto my consciousness. 

She ravages her kill and I cannot avert my gaze. 

The wildebeest looks up at me and whispers: mutiny.

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

Che

"Let the world change you and you can change the world."

Paul McCartney

"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you can do."

peace

"May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness -- the children, the aged, the unprotected -- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood."

St. of Assisi

"Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born."

Leto

"I believe in nothing
Not the end and not the start
I believe in nothing
Not the earth and not the stars
I believe in nothing
Not the day and not the dark
I believe in nothing
But the beating of our hearts
I believe in nothing
100 suns until we part
I believe in nothing
Not in sin and not in God
I believe in nothing
Not in peace and not in war
I believe in nothing
But the truth and who we are"

be true

“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”

When Dreaming Ends

poetic impulses bled out
leaving behind an empty pen...