Tag: Stones on the Path

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~ Voltaire

Realization is unconditional happiness, an indescribable inner joy. We are always seeking something, trying to see, to know, just like we try to get ordinary things and accumulate ideas, and that desire is endless. But not seeing is true seeing, not know is true knowing. Not finding can be finding the true essence also. It sounds like nonsense, but it is recommendable.
~ His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa

No matter whether you are a Buddhist or not, a spiritual practitioner or not, appreciation is very important. Appreciation is a great thing; you really need to have it. This is what I think from the heart. Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate. There is no real reason why you should not be happy, unless maybe there’s too much complaining and not enough appreciation.

~ His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.

I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

~ Eugene Debs

The breeze at dawn
Has secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask
For what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep
People are going back and forth
Across the doorsill
Where the two worlds touch
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep

~Rumi

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it — exactly and completely.
~ Dainin Katagiri Roshi

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody sees a flower, really — it is so small – we haven’t time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
~ Georgia O’Keefe

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
~ Moby