If you really want to escape the things that bother you,
what you’re needing is not to be in a different place
but to be a different person.
Seneca
A change of mind
Tag: Life
A pure, flowing river
The Buddha taught his students to develop a power of love so strong that their minds become like a pure, flowing river that cannot be burned.
No matter what kind of material is thrown into it, it will not burn.
Many experiences – good, bad, and indifferent – are thrown into the flowing river of our lives, but we are not burned, owing to the power of the love in our hearts.
Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness
The sun and the moon
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them…..We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities.
Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
Suzy Kassem, 1975 – American Poet, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
Allowing each and every thing
The point here is to take life in all its rich variety just as it is, with its ten thousand opposites,
and to go along with whatever circumstances require, embracing things after their own inclination or according to chance,
letting things be, rather than getting in their way, and thus allowing each and every thing, each and every appearance, to pursue a meaning and purpose distinct from my own.
Totsudo Kato, 1870 – 1949, Japanese writer
Sunday Quote: Goodness
The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness.
Now, in this life
Leo Tolstoy
To look
The beauty of the world is revealed when we learn how to look
To photograph is to put the head, the eye and the heart on the same line of sight.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908 – 2004, French Photographer
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