good quotes
“You never have to regret or apologize for nice.”
–Matthew Thompson, aka @twinlensreflux
I have been coming back to this conversation I had on Twitter this past Friday. Very wise words to live by. I feel like this is everything I’ve been learning about the Precepts distilled down into a nice tidy sentence.
P.S. Look at this amazing rainbow I saw the other day!!
On kindness
Random“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”
― Salvador Dalí
“Rebellion is obsolete – change things from the inside working out.”
– Mark Mothersbaugh
“The truth of the line overwhelms all other considerations.”
-Leonard Cohen, The Book Of Longing.
I have been reading The Book Of Longing and have been very inspired by it. I really want to learn more about Cohen. He wrote some of it while staying at Mt Baldy Zen Center as a Buddhist Monk in seclusion. There is something about that fact that makes the poetry more touching to me, partly because I am also Buddhist but also because the poetry really displays his human side, even as he was seeking spirituality.
This particular quote caught my attention because it was hand written alongside a self portrait he drew in ink. I am interested in this idea of the line being truth, as in when you draw something, the line that is laid down with your hands is pure truth. If that makes sense.
Blatherskite 