Tag: Stones on the Path

What we are looking for is what is looking.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

People don’t mind being used; what they mind is being discarded.

~ Chris Matthews

Thought for the day…

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
~ attributed to Hunter S. Thompson

Amen.

Don’t just wish for peace. Work for it.
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
~ Voltaire

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King

If you want to win the war with your mind, you’ll be at war forever.
~ Adyashanti

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.
~ Evan Esar

Whenever Buddhism has taken root in a new land there has always been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion, the situation of those who were listening to him. So, all of us have the responsibility to take the essence of Buddhism and put it into practice in our own lives.
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we’ve forgotten how to listen.
~ Michael Roads, author of Talking with Nature