What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty.
No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self, which is poetry.
Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
The value of a life
does not depend on
the place we occupy;
It depends on the way
we occupy that place.
attributed to Therese of Lisieux
Same understanding as yesterday’s quote, but from the Western tradition
I have spoken at times of a light in the deepest self,
a light that is uncreated and uncreatable,
and to the extent that we can turn away from created things, we shall find our unity and blessing in that little spark,
which neither space nor time touches.
Meister Eckhart
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
In moments of darkness and pain
remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door
Spring will come again
Loy Ching-Yuen (1873 – 1960) Chinese Taoist tai chi master.
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a new-born child that has no name.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man. Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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