Tag: Stones on the Path

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is “look under foot”. You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
~ John Burroughs

Better a handful of quietness
Than both hands full with toil
And much chasing the wind.
~ Ecclesiastes

“Understanding and compassion are very powerful sources of energy. They are the opposite of stupidity and passivity. If you think that compassion is passive, weak or cowardly, then you don’t know what real compassion is. If you think that compassionate people do not resist and challenge injustice you are wrong.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each second is a universe of time.”
~ Henry Miller

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
~ Miles Davis

“We are so blind and deaf. The world is transparent. God is everywhere whispering to us, talking to us, shouting at us. Usually we do not hear. Sometimes we do. Then we know that everything is grace.”
~ Andrew Greeley

“You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all.”
~ Kalu Rinpoche

“True enlightenment and wholeness arise when we are without anxiety about nonperfection.”
~ The Third Patriarch

“Better not to begin. Once you begin, better to finish it.”
~ Buddhist saying