Tag: Stones on the Path

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
– Sidney Howard

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

” Baby, look outside.Them bird’s is still singin’ ,and they got no coat, no job, no roof over they head, no guarantee uh’duh next meal. They’s jus’happy they’s breathing.”
~T-Bucket’s momma

“Mindfulness must be engaged with a social conscience. Meditative silence is not sufficient.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh

If there is light in the soul
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation
There will be peace in the world.
~ Chinese Proverb

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama

When a society comes together and makes decisions in harmony, when it respects its most noble traditions, cares for its most vulnerable members, treats its forests and lands with respect, then it will prosper and not decline
~ Buddha, Mahaparinirvana Sutra

“Naturally most of us would like to die a peaceful death, but it is also clear that we cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn to live well.”
–The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin