Tag Archives: 2013

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can’t develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. ― Daisaku Ikeda

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ― Alan Wilson Watts

Where ever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear. … Continue reading →

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ― Gautama Buddha

I’d like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. ― Saigyō

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