SEX without love is an empty experience but as empty experiences go it’s one of the best. Woody Allen
IT’S MUCH HARDER TO BE A LIBERAL THAN A CONSERVATIVE. WHY? BECAUSE IT’S EASIER TO GIVE SOMEONE THE FINGER THAN A HELPING HAND. M. ROYKO
IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKING,
I SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN;
IF I CAN EASE ONE LIFE THE ACHING,
OR CURE ONE PAIN
OR HELP ONE FAINTING ROBIN
UNTO HIS NEST AGAIN
I SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN.
EMILY DICKINSON
THE GREAT HOPE OF SOCITY IS IN INDIVIUAL CHARACTER.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
THE FIRST PROBLEM for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
ANGER IS ENERGIZING. THE OPPOSITE OF ANGER IS DEPRESSION WHICH IS ANGER TURNED INWARD. GLORIA STEINEM
JAZZ AT ITS BEST IS A DEMOCRACY OF CREATIVITY. JIMMY HEATH.
CONVENTIONALISMS have about as much influence over HENRY THOREAU as over a forest tree or the birds in the branches. And a with the freshness of thought he unites a rare maturity of scholarship — he can entertain any one who is not muffled in more than ordinary dullness.
THROUGH THE SWEET MELTING OF OBJECTIVITY WITHIN DOES OUR AWARENESS BLOSSOM INTO REPOSE. SHAMBHU HEART
RAM DASS 1931-2019—“Be Here Now””Grist for the Mill””Miracle of Love”
WE are just walking each other home.
THE EGO IS FRIGHTENED BY DEATH, because ego is part of the incarnation & ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul death is just another moment.
OUR JOURNEY is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it.
WATCH HOW YOUR MIND JUDGES. Judgement comes in part out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging you find where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgement means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others just be without separation.
WITHOUT REMAINING OPEN TO CHANGE, WE CAN NOT REMAIN OPEN TO LIFE
FAITH IS WHAT IS LEFT AFTER ALL YOUR BELIEFS HAVE BEEN BLOWN TOhell
SOULS LOVE. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t but souls do. Become a soul, look around and you’ll be amazed — all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals and trees and clouds and galaxies — it’s all one. It’s one energy.
INFORMATION is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
DON’T COMPARE YOUR PATH WITH ANYBODY ELSE’S. YOUR PATH IS UNIQUE TO YOU.
SUFFERING IS PART OF OUR TRAINING PROGRAM FOR BECOMING WISE.
SUFFERING only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.
IF I’M GOING TO DIE, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart.
THE GAME IS NOT ABOUT BECOMING SOMEBODY — IT’S ABOUT BECOMING NOBODY.
THE INTELLECT is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway of our unity.
WE’RE sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we’re not getting any sunshine!
IF YOU THINK YOU’RE ENLIGHTENED GO SPEND A WEEK WITH YOUR FAMILY.
DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO PERSONALLY.
I PRACTICE TURNING PEOPLE INTO TREES. WHICH MEANS APPRECIATING THEM JUST THE WAY THEY ARE.
EVERYTHING CHANGES once we identify with being the witness to the story instead of the actor in it.
ALL YOU CAN DO FOR ANOTHER PERSON IS TO BE AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IF THEY WANTED TO COME UP FOR AIR, THEY COULD.