A bird gets up every morning and sings its song.
It does not wait to hear what other birds are singing, nor does it look to see if another bird is getting more notice. It knows its song innately and sings.
This is nature: knowing your own song
Michele Oka Doner, 1945 – American artist and author
Do your work,
then step back
– the only path to peacefulness.
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Yesterday, Irish people wished everyone a “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day” or if in the Irish language, “the blessings of Saint Patrick’s Day”. But what do these related terms “Happy” and “Blessed” mean?
By happiness I mean a deep sense of flourishing which comes from an exceptionally heathy mind
This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion or a mood, but an optimal state of being
Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
Matthieu Ricard, Happiness
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there
W.B. Yeats, Irish Poet, The Two Trees
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
For in the true nature of things,
if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious
than if it were made of silver or gold
Martin Luther King
If you view everything as practice,
your suffering will disappear.
Shido Bunan, 1603-1676, Zen Master
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