Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another.
All things change, nothing perishes.
The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.
Pythagoras, Greek Philosopher, 570 – c. 495 BC
Happiness is available.
Please help yourself.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday necessities
of being alive
David Whyte
It is imperative to cut off the mind road.
If you do not cut off the mind road, you will be a ghost, clinging to the grass.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai,, 1183–1260, Chinese Chán master
There’s always a lot of magic, but our way of seeing it is very small and we mostly just call it Nature.
Why, we are not at all surprised that we can pick up an apple in autumn that was a pink flower in the spring.
That’s natural magic and we don’t really notice it.
Pat O’Shea, 1931 – 2007, Irish children’s fiction writer, The Hounds of the Mórrígan
If you aren’t feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn’t have anything to feed on.
It peaks and passes on.
In order to be gentle and create an atmosphere of compassion for yourself, it’s necessary to stop talking to yourself about how wrong everything is – or how right everything is, for that matter.
Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are – a Guide to Compassionate Living
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