What would happen if we just let ’em fly?
“I usually tell people, ‘You should not ask me what I have done. Rather you ask me, what I did not do,’ ” he says. “I did not clip her wings to fly. I did not stop her from flying.”
read moreWhen even one virtue becomes our nature…
read moreWhen even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. – Swami Satchidananda
Blossom as if you were a lotus flower…
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. … Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ”
― Goldie Hawn
True Words by Lao Tzu
True words are not beautiful.
Beautiful words are not truthful.
The good do not argue.
Those who argue are not good.
Those who know are not scholarly.
The scholarly do not know.
The wise do not hoard.
The more they give to others, the more they have.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words…
There once was a man who felt discouraged. He took stock of the resolutions he made last year. Nothing in his life had changed. He was the same person, with the same flaws and problems. He began to lose hope. So he went to speak to his mentor.
The mentor asked, “Do you know how long it takes for the giant Chinese bamboo to grow as tall as a building? During the first year, the tiny plant is watered and fertilized … and nothing happens. It is watered and fertilized for another whole year … and another … and another … and still nothing happens. Then in the fifth year … it shoots up to the sky! In six weeks the bamboo grows 90 feet. So how long does it take for it to grow so high?”…
read moreImpossible is just a big word…
read more“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ― Muhammad Ali
When I despair…
read moreWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always. — Mahatma Gandhi
Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise…
If— By Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936
If—
By Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
… Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
The Story of the Blind Men and the Elephant
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind…
