Author Archives: TA Loeffler

It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. ― Daisaku Ikeda

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ― Mahatma Gandhi

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. ― Shunryu Suzuki Visual Soliloquy #730 marks the two year mark (i.e. 365 x 2) of these…it’s been a remarkable practice of speaking to myself and others … Continue reading →

Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end. ― Daisaku Ikeda

True change is within; leave the outside as it is. ― Dalai Lama XIV

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. ― Hermann Hesse

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. ― Pema Chödrön

You only lose what you cling to. ― Gautama Buddha

If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will. ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The future depends on what you do today. ― Mahatma Gandhi

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. –The Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. –The Buddha

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ~Pablo Neruda

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying. – Sarah Dessen

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ― Carl Bard

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. ― Eliza Tabor Stephenson

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.- C. S. Lewis

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. ~Adrienne Cook

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,”You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky. –Hāfez

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the … Continue reading →

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel us to unfold our powers. –Erich Fromm

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. –Ralph Marston

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a … Continue reading →

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.- Vernon Law

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde