Joy

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.  Rumi

Letting Go

Focusing our attention incessantly on matters that disturb us keeps us disturbed and our obsession with our problems leaves no room for their solutions. However, we are only powerless in the face of  difficulties if we choose to be. We are always free to search for the good which is lost in a tangled situation. We can be certain that our progress in life is equal to our capacity to let go of our problems and move ahead with the momentum of a positive attitude.

Truth

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away. Hakuin

Honorable Life

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time. Dalai Lama

Refuge

You are the light, you are the refuge, 

There is no place to take shelter but yourself. 

Inscription over the Buddha's Ashes

A Prayer

Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart may be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may be truly fulfilled. Tibetan Prayer of Making

Born Again

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha

Consciousness

The greatest sin is to be unconscious. Carl Gustav Jung

Paradise

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. Charlotte Joko Beck

Small Tasks

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty 

to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.We have to learn to live happily in the present moment, 

to touch the peace and joy that are available now.  Thich Nhat Hanh

Truth

When we see into the emptiness or illusory nature of things, of life and death, 

of sickness and health, of youth and old age, then we’re master of all things. 

We are free to be healthy, we’re free to be sick, we’re free to grow old. 

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Contentment

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Beyond

You're from a country beyond this universe, yet your best guess is earth and ashes. Rumi

Thinking

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?  Winnie the Pooh

Let Go

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have even more peace. So wherever you are attached, let go of that and come back to the center. Learn to see all movement of life with balance and openness. Achaan Chah

Our Guide

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships. Rumi

Composure

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana. Shunryu Suzuki

Choices

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. Thich Nhat Hanh 

Go Beyond

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of Paradise. Rumi

Sunshine

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. James Barrie

Earthly Delight

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran

Open

Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me with your inspiration. So that I may see mine. Rumi

Barriers

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. A Course in Miracles

Be Ground

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. Try something different. Rumi

Discovery

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

Easy...

They slept without dreams and woke without worries. Easy come, easy go.

They took life as it came, gladly…..

Chuang-Tzu, On the True Men and Women of Old

Time?

The trouble is that you think you have time.  Zen Master

Support

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?  Rumi

At Peace

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: 

perfect, complete, lacking nothing. 

Dogen