What matters is the good we did
Not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
Sunday Quote: Good
Tag: Joy
The best season
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai, 1183 – 1260, Chinese Chan master
Stephen Mitchell translation
Sunday Quote: Luminous
This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view,
but inside the angel,
is perhaps my real task.
Rilke, in a Letter, 1915
Joy
84,000 delusions
84,000 lights
84,000 joys abounding
Saichi Asahara, Jōdo Shinshū [True Pure Land Buddhism] poet, writer and sandal maker
In Buddhism it is said that there are 84,000 doors to Enlightenment
Sunday Quote: A light in the heart
No striving, no grasping at this or that, no entertaining any self-involved stories whatsoever.
Instead, attention pivots toward a light in the heart in which the ‘field of boundless emptiness’ is revealed.
All questions and doubts are put to rest.
Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091–1157, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk
Sunday Quote: Before
Can you remember who you were,
before the world told you who you should be?
Charles Bukowski, 1920 – 1994, American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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