Tag: Stones on the Path

If you’re going through hell, keep on going.
~ Walt Disney

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

If people have no patience, they have no patience, and I can’t insist that they develop it. But I’ve observed that human life without patience becomes unworkable. My experience has been that I’ve been forced to develop patience with unchangeable situations.

~ H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.

final 3 stanzas of Song of Myself, Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Since everything is but an apparition,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
You might as well burst out laughing!
~ Longchenpa

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

~ Wendell Berry

Something has broken. So many of the great ideals in politics, religion, and leadership have become tarnished. Now is the time to gather ourselves, to take back all the power that we have given away so cheaply to outside voices. We need to heal our listening so that we come to hear the inner music of our lives.
~ John O’Donohue

Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for the sun to shine in a cave facing north.
~ Old Tibetan saying

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda

Thanks Giving – is a time of gratitude for family and further
for extending the circle of our loving beyond the borders of mere flesh and blood.

Let’s try to be mindful, gratefully noticing the good
in our lives with gratitude. But let’s not stop at that. Why
not take it to the next step – to a deeper level, by practicing
gratitude. Mindfulness in action. Share in some way. Think about what
you have with deep appreciation and rather than just giving in to greed,
wanting more of this or that, or the next this or that – Just Give. With
so much need in the world – all around, in each of us, and in all of us, just give.
There is justness and righteousness in it.

~ Lama Surya Das