"Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem."
_____ Seung Sahn
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Thursday Inspiration
"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things... but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."
_____ James Carroll
Wednesday Inspirayion
"If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer."
_____ David Deida
Tuesday Inspiration
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
_____ Aldous Huxley
Monday Inspiration
"The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it."
_____ Bhante Y. Wimala
Friday Inspiration
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
_____ Buddha
Thursday Inspiration
"The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims."
_____ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday Inspiration
"Calm soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a place of thine,
Man did not make, and can not mar."
_____ Matthew Arnold
Tuesday Inspiration
"In the root and stem of your own psyche, there is an accumulation of bad habits. If you cannot see through them and act independently of them, you will unavoidably get bogged down along the way."
_____ Yuansou
Monday Inspiration
"We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them."
_____ Kahlil Gibran
Weekend Inspiration
"Wealth and honor are what people want, but if they are the consequence of deviating from the Way, I would have no part in them. Poverty and disgrace are what people deplore, but if they are the consequence of staying on the Way, I would not avoid them."
_____ Confucius
Friday Inspiration
"We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath."
_____ Lawrence Binyon
Thursday Inspiration
"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now."
_____ Neale Donald Walsch
Wednesday Inspiration
"Heaven and heart remain peacefully unmoved,yet their life breath is unceasing, and is seldom known to rest."
_____ Hung Ying-Ming
Tuesday Inspiration
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
_____ Thich Nhat Hanh
Monday Inspiration
"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
_____ Louis L'Amour
Weekend Inspiration
"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering."
_____ Francis Fenelon
Friday Inspiration
"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed."
_____ Buddha
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