A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s. ~Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, Austrian Poet)
I will embody Not Knowing, thereby giving up fixed ideas. I will Bear Witness, opening my heart to the joy and suffering of life. I will take Loving Action arising out of not-knowing and bearing witness. ~Bernie Glassman (1939-2018, founder of the Zen Peacemakers)
We must become more skillful in our meditative practice to integrate things that reset, rewire, and enhance our nervous systems, so that we are capable of supporting the healing, transformation, and liberation we want to see and be. ~Larry Ward (Co-founder of The Lotus Institute, teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition)
How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing. Looking for awe in all of life. ~Lucy Jones (Author, journalist, matresence researcher)
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~Anais Nin (1903-1977, essayist, novelist, philosopher)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama (1935 to pres., 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader and former head of state of Tibet, Buddhist teacher)
We can contemplate and consider together. We can expand our spiritual and cosmic vocabulary and allow the mysteries of life to permeate every cell. We have waited long enough. It’s time to take the transcendent leap forward in hopes of personal and communal healing as well as a shared cosmic future. ~Barbara Holmes (1943 to … Continue reading Cosmic Future
Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed. ~Rebecca Solnit (1961 to pres., American … Continue reading Taking Care
The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power. ~Henry Crow Dog (Sioux medicine elder)
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ~Mavlana Jalaladin Rumi (1207-1273 Persian Poet and Mystic)