Happiness is available.
Please help yourself.
Thich Nhat Hahn
photograph of glendalough Co Wicklow
Not a dress rehearsal
Treat every moment as your last
It is not a preparation for something else
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
photo by Alan light
New month: Beginners Mind
Ah, but we die to each other daily.
What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them. And they have changed since then.
To pretend that they and we are the same
Is a useful and convenient social convention
Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember
That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
TS Eliot, The Cocktail Party
photo Marty
Simple moments
Sometimes all it takes
to be happy
is a dime on the sidewalk.
Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
Why look elsewhere
There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide
At the center of your being;
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it, the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
photo : found5dollar
At home here
Into the house where joy lives
Happiness will gladly come
Japanese saying
