proverbs 22:7

"Just as the rich rule the poor, 

so the borrower is slave to the lender."

Rumi

"The cure for pain is in the pain"

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"

an open letter...

"There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it.  You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, you forget the bad, and you focus on the good.  You love the people who treat you right.  And, you pray for the ones who don't.  Life is too short to be anything but happy.  Falling down is part of life, getting back up is living."

Lao Tzu

"If you are depressed,
you are living in the past.
If you are anxious,
you are living in the future.
If you are at peace,
you are living in the present."

Catherine Burke

"Anxiety is your soul jumping up and down inside your heart screaming, 'I'm not happy'"

Chogyam Trungpa

"You are absolutely comfortable and happy the way you are, yet at the same time you find it excruciatingly painful.  You are not certain whether you want to stay the way you are, which is very pleasurable, or not stay the way you are, because it is very painful at the same time.  That kind of pushing and pulling happens all the time.  That seems to be the motivation and the contagious quality of Buddha nature, which is trying to shine through all the time."

Harriet Tubman

"Every great dreams begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world."

A Time For Everything

"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak." ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Dalai Lama

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover."

Paul Shepard

"To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles.  Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality."

Simone de Beauvoir

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties
through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me."

Happiness

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." ~ Francesca Reigler

Leo Tolstoy

"If you want to be happy, be."

Raku Kichizaemon

"Not to narrate, nor express
Neither to be concerned about being traditional or contemporary
Nor again to strive for originality
What matters is to drop a plumb-line into the depths of my being
And grope my way downward
Into the cave of my existence, crammed with the totality of
Past, present and future."