Guidebook

Three Guides –

No Blame.
Be Kind.
Love Everything.

Terrance Keenan, artist, poet, Zen Buddhist Monk, formerly head monk at the Zen Center of Syracuse.

The faces of others

You must unlearn the habit of being someone else or nothing at all, of imitating the voices of others and mistaking the faces of others for your own.

One thing is given to man which makes him into a god, which reminds him that he is a god: to know destiny.

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

Hermann Hesse, If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics

How to keep going

When the big things feel out of control,

focus on what you love right under your nose.

The Horse in Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

per Laura V…

Sunday Quote: Fresh

It’s morning again…and the world’s drying off with fresh-laundered sunshine.

Life’s face is never the same
though we may look at it for all eternity.

Kolbein Falkeid, Norwegian poet, 1933 –

Air

All you can do for another person

is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air,

they could.

Ram Dass

Sunday Quote: Content

There is great happiness in not wanting,

in not being something,

in not going somewhere.

Jiddu Krisnamurti