Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau
Make something beautiful
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.
Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.
Mary Oliver, Franz Marc’s Blue Horses
Again and again
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
Growth must be chosen again and again;
fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham Maslow
Life doesn’t go in a straight line
I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
Federico García Lorca, 1898 – 1936, Spanish poet
The road to enlightenment
Every place is the road of enlightenment
Everywhere is a forest of virtues
Fa-Yen Wen-I, 885 – 998 Chinese Chan teacher
In this moment
Back to work after the long Easter weekend:
The way to attain balance:
Who dares to equal the person
who falls into neither being nor non-being!
Everyone wishes to step out of
the current of ordinary life,
But this person, after all, comes back
To sit among the coals and the ashes.
Dongshan Liangjie, Chinese Chan (Zen) teacher (806-869), Verses on the Five Ranks
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