A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. … Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.— Deng Ming-Dao
Man need only divert his attention from searching for the solution to external questions and pose the one, true inner question of how he should lead his life, and all the external questions will be resolved in the best possible way.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A god can do it. But tell me how
a person can flow like that through the slender lyre.
Our mind is split. At the crossroads in our heart
stands no temple for Apollo.
Song, as you teach us, is not a grasping,
not a seeking for some final consummation.
To sing is to be. Easy for a god.
But when do we simply be? When do we
become one with earth and stars?
It is not achieved, young friend, by being in love,
however vibrant that makes your voice.
Learn to forget you sang like that. It passes.
Truly to sing takes another kind of breath.
A breath in the void. A shudder in God. A wind.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
The orange carnelian is so rich.
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Adyashanti - True Meditation 1of3 (by Peace)
I am pro-peace and promote a pro-peace future whenever I have the opportunity. I stress the importance of choice regarding war, violence and other related traits long considered to be “just a part of human nature”. Until there is a politician who embraces peace, as a reality, in conjunction with other values I consider to be unbearably sensible, debates about pro/cons of specific politicians are without sense and, I feel, are a distraction from the issues at hand.
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
– Virginia Woolf (b. 25 January, 1882 - 28 March, 1941)
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The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.
Robert M. Pirsig
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