Tag: Stones on the Path

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless than the colours of an autumn forest… Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them, in all their tones and semitones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of this own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.
~ G.K. Chesterton

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

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
~ Meister Eckhart

… Suddenly I realize,
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.
~ End of James Wright’s famous poem A Blessing

The least of things with meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without.
~ Carl Gustav Jung

My religion is to live–and die–without regret.
~ Milarepa

You are never too old to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot

Talk does not cook rice.
~ Chinese proverb

Don’t just do something. Sit there!
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

… and in other news, I think I figured out the “sound of one hand clapping” koan while I was in the shower this morning.

The moment between before and after is called Truth
~ Katagiri Roshi

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you–Nobody–too?
~ Emily Dickinson

The moments that we feel most alive are when we recognize that our experience is passing, that at some point it will be gone.
~ Connie Barlow