February 2012
What happens when we die?
At death, we lose everything we thought was real. Unless we can let go of all the things we cherish in our life, we are terrified. If we cannot stop struggling to hold on to our old life, all our fear and yearning will drag us into yet another painful reality.
— The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Good Morning from Nevada
anthonybtimmons:
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood...”
– Doris Lessing (via 1beauty)
“Forever Oneness,
Who sings to us in silence,
Who teaches us through each...”
– Aboriginal Ritual Chant (via moreofamore)
“All the rest is silence
On the other side of the wall,
And the silence...”
– W. H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror (via proustitute)
armenotti:
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Philip Dick
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via moreofamore)
“God wishes to see more love and playfulness in your eyes
for that is your...”
– Hafiz (via moreofamore)
“Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and...”
– Horace Mann (Unitarian, educator, reformer)
“There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated...”
– Wendell Berry, from “How to Be a Poet” in Given (via proustitute)
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it...”
– William Blake (via moreofamore)
“For Zen students the most important thing is not to be dualistic. Our “original...”
– Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...”
– René Descartes (via mythologyofblue)
“Humanity must turn around. What good are all its religious practices, what good...”
– Eberhard Arnold (via azspot)
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that...”
– Lao Tzu (via moreofamore)
“listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via hermannhesse)
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (via moreofamore)
zentaoistchristian:
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.- Confucius
