We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Body and mind are one.
Thus, if you straighten your body, your mind is straight.
Miyazaki Zenji, 1901 – 2008, Zen abbot of Eiheiji Monastery
There is only one life you can call your own
and a thousand others you can call by any name you want.
David Whyte
When things no longer have the ability to offend you,
they cease to exist in the old way.
Jianzhi Sengcan, died 606, the Third Zen Patriarch
Sorcerers maintain that talking about ourselves makes us accessible and weak, while learning how to be quiet fills us with power.
A principle of the path of knowledge is to turn your own life into something so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.
Carlos Castaneda
The key to our deepest happiness
lies in changing our vision
of where to find it
Sharon Salzberg, Finding your Way
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