Bernie Glassman

"We cook, eat, and appreciate the meal, whereas if we just sit around bitching about all the things we don't have and not eating anything, we'd starve.  And that goes for life, too.  Look at the ingredients you have, make the best meal possible, and offer it.  Don't forget to offer it.  If you make the meal just for yourself, you don't get the same pleasure."

Jeanette Winterson

"I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place.  That is what Jung was explaining of course - as the chaos of our unconscious contents drive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness."

"I was going to be away, free, or so it seemed, but you always take it with you.  It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place."

Buddha Smiles

I have no idea.
     Truth.
          Complexities.
Seven Chakras.
Twelve Steps.

Questions.
     Discoveries.
          Acceptance.

If I listen to you,
     Can you hear me?

Enlightened!
     Enlightened to What?
          Enlighten Me.

Reality Is Enlightenment.

Accepting Self.
Accepting Others.

So simple.
No mystery.

Nothing to learn.
Nothing to teach.

Matter is neither created nor destroyed.

I matter.
You matter.
All matter.

What is here now
     has always been.

Big Bang!
Let There Be Light!

All is created from the same.

God.
     You.
         Me.

The Earth, Sun and Moon.
The Dirt, Trees and Water.

When I die
I become
What I once was.
     What I still am.
          What I will always be.

I am you
and
You are me.

God.  Light.  Love.  All.

You cannot create me.
I cannot destroy you.

Linked. Bound. Tied. All.

DO YOU KNOW HOW GOOD YOU SMELL?

Movement in the mind
Conscious shift
Conscious split.

Split from the lies,
Dust removed from the eyes.

Unblocked: From the Lies we tell ourselves.

The lie of separation.  Differentiation.

Words.  Thoughts. Actions. Voice.

The throat is unblocked by the Truth.
The light moves up and through and out.
into...

Reality is Heaven.
Heaven is Bliss.
Bliss is Real.
Real is now.

There is no pie in the sky.

Suffering is the human condition.

Can you suffer
     and accept?

Buddha Smiling.

Knowing how precious
this moment is.

This moment is reality
and we will never exist again.

The me that started does not finish.

My two year old Me,
does not exist.
That person does not exist.

The Me of yesterday does not exist.

Only me, now, this moment.
Only you, now, this moment.

Enlightenment is not an opening
of the seventh chakra to the cosmos.

It is not floating on the ninth cloud.

You cannot be Saved,
from yourself.

Exist. Now.  In This Moment. Only Once. Forever Gone.  Forever More.

Accepting
Smiling

Alice Walker

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

Think Less... Do More

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." ~Steve Jobs~ 

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." ~William Shakespeare~

 "When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem." ~Joyce Meyer~

Cherokee Legend - Two Wolves

"An old Cherokee is teaching her grandson about life... "A fight is going on inside me," she said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. "One is evil - it is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. "The other is good - it is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, gratitude, trust, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandmother, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee smiled and said, "The one you feed."

Decisions

Every decision is the wrong decision and the right decision at the same time depending on who is looking at it.

Acceptance

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
~Melody Beattie~

"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."
~Albert Ellis~

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology that you never got."
~Robert Brault~

"I'm not ok - And you're not ok - And that is ok."
~William Sloane Coffin

Dada Vaswani

"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy."

Jampolsky

“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”

Tao

“The best fighter is never angry.” ― Lao Tzu

love

"The people who love you for who you are and not for what you can do for them are the best kind of people."

Brigitte Nicole

wake up

"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be."

~Alan Watts~

freedom

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” ~Stephen Covey

Groucho Marx

"I find television very educational.  Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book."

Suffering

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because they suffer deeply within themselves, and that suffering is spilling over.  The do not need punishment; they need help.  That is the message they are sending 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." ~Thich Nhat Hanh~

"No one saves us but ourselves.  No one can and no one may.  We ourselves must walk the path." ~Buddha~

Contentment

"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."

The Sun

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
~Pablo Picasso~ 

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
~Buddha~

 "When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
~Wilma Rudolph~

Tucson

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
~Charlotte Whitton~

Twain

"In twenty years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn't do than by what you did."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Grow

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

Acceptance

“Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment contains, embrace it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously change your whole life.” ~Eckhart Tolle

Who you Truly are

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~Carl Jung

Simple

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~Confucius

Anaïs Nin

“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”

Sylvia Plath

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”

Chinese Proverb

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

Steve Maraboli

“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”

Morissette

"I'll give you countless amounts of outright acceptance, if you want it.

I will give you encouragement to choose the path that you want, if you need it.

You can speak of anger and doubts your fears and freak outs, and I'll hold it.

You can share your so-called shame filled accounts of times in your life, and I won't judge it.

And, there are no strings attached to it.

You can ask for space for yourself and only yourself, and I'll grant it.

You can ask for freedom as well or time to travel, and you'll have it.

You can ask to live by yourself or love someone else, and I'll support it.

You can ask for anything you want anything at all, and I'll understand it.

And, there are no strings attached to it

I bet you're wondering when the next payback shoe will eventually drop.

I bet you're wondering when my conditional police will force you to cough up.

I bet you wonder how far you have now danced you way back into debt.

This is the only kind of love, as I understand it, that there really is.

You can express your deepest of truths even if it means I'll lose you, and I'll hear it.

You can fall into the abyss on your way to your bliss, I'll empathize with.

You can say that you have to skip town to chase your passion, and I'll hear it,

You can even hit rock bottom have a mid-life crisis, and I'll hold it.
And, there are no strings attached

You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give

You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have

I give you thanks for receiving, it's my privilege

And you owe me nothing in return."

Smith

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."