What you possess, you lose.
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
The ordinary mind is the way.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.
It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. – John Elderidge
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.
I’m essentially agnostic. I don’t have a problem with God. I have a problem with religion. I’ve chosen to live my life without the certainties of religious faith. I think they’re dangerous. Music is something that gives my life value and spiritual solace.
The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.
Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
