Thursday, February 28, 2013

Actions


What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Happiness


The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Open


Once our hearts are open, all existence appears naturally beautiful and harmonious. Tarthang Tulku

Monday, February 25, 2013

Pain


The pain you feel today will be the strength you will feel tomorrow. Unknown

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Better


Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. Flannery O'Connor

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Nature


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, February 22, 2013

Happy Life


Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Thursday, February 21, 2013

A Voice


There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.  Rumi

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Friend


A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Waking Up

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. Alan Watts

Monday, February 18, 2013

Common Link


Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. John F. Kennedy

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Thoughts

Who am I in the midst of all this thought traffic? Rumi 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Improve


None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. Bertolt Brecht

Friday, February 15, 2013

One


We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are. Thomas Merton

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Kindness


Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Creativity


Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. Bill Moyers

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Stillness


How can I be still? By flowing with the stream. Lao Tzu

Monday, February 11, 2013

Sides


Everything has a bright and dark side to it. Those who see only the dark side of things bring sorrow and pain upon themselves. To those who are able to see at the same time the bright side of it, every day is a good day. Yunmen

Sunday, February 10, 2013

How it is


As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. Ram Dass

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Fear

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne

Friday, February 8, 2013

Mindfulness


Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. Sylvia Boorstein

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Helping

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path. Buddha

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Death


Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets the moon sets but they are not gone. Rumi

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The Bridge


Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Thich Nhat Hanh

Monday, February 4, 2013

Courage


It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Getting


Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Ego


It is characteristic of the ego that it takes all that is unimportant as important and all that is important as unimportant. Meher Baba

Friday, February 1, 2013

Happiness


We go here, there, to this place, to that one, always looking for happiness that is there inside. Satchidananda