Sorcerers maintain that talking about ourselves makes us accessible and weak, while learning how to be quiet fills us with power.
A principle of the path of knowledge is to turn your own life into something so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.
Carlos Castaneda
The key to our deepest happiness
lies in changing our vision
of where to find it
Sharon Salzberg, Finding your Way
Every speck of dust has a marvelous soul,
but to understand it, one must recover one’s religious and magical sense of things.
Joan Miró, 1993 – 1983, Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist
I have come to see that our problem is that we don’t know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It’s the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.
Mark Epstein
Get out of the construction business!
Stop building bridges across the raging waters of samsaric existence, attempting to reach the “far shore,” nirvana.
Better to simply relax, at ease and carefree, in total naturalness, and just go with the primordial flow, however it occurs and happens.
And remember this: whether or not you go with the flow, it always goes with you.
Nyoshül Khenpo Rinpoche, 1932 – 1999 , Tibetan lama
Very appropriate for Ireland this Autumn as we seem to go from one Atlantic Storm to the next. Also true of the difficulties in our lives.
When I interviewed Maya Angelou she told me to write this sentence on my notepad and to never forget it:
“Every storm runs out of rain”
I still think of that line to this day.
Alex Banayan, American author
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