I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King
Sunday Quote: Resist
Tag: Life
Plenty of Practice
Even on the calmest, most uneventful day we get many opportunities to see the clash between what we want and the way it really is.
Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen
One thing at a time
Never bear more than one trouble at a time.
Some people bear three kinds – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale, 1822 – 1909, American author, historian, and Unitarian minister,
Unmoving
We have had three storms pass over us in the last few days. Strong winds. In a similar way, each day contains a lot of conditioned events which pass through – a succession of little births and deaths. There is always a dialogue between these changing conditions and our underlying nature.
A monk asked, ”How can one escape from birth, old age, sickness, and death?”
Lingyun said, ”The green mountain is fundamentally unmoving, but the floating clouds pass back and forth.”
Lingyun Zhiqin, 9th Century Chan Master
Sunday Quote: Free
Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation
Shannon L. Alder
Humble places
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro, 1830 – 1903, Danish-French Impressionist/ Neo-Impressionist painter
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