Tag: quotes

  • “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

  • Do not indulge anger

    “Do not indulge anger – cultivate equanimity. In the realm of the selfless dharma, not contriving reality for the self is the precept of not indulging anger. Not advancing, not retreating, not real, not empty. There is a brilliant sea of clouds. There is a dignified sea of clouds. ” – From the Sixteen Bodhisattva…

  • “Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider,…

  • As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with understanding. -C.P. Cavafy. Ithaca.

  • “Even if the whole Universe is all a bunch of jerks doing jerk-type things, there’s still liberation in simply not being a jerk.” – Dogen I love the Brad Warner translation of Dogen. It actually makes him (Dogen) understandable.