"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something." - Muhammad Iqbal We acclimate and get used to things. I love art, but if I had to live in an art museum it would change my relationship I have with it. Sure, I'd be all excited at first, and... Continue Reading →
"Touching the present moment, we realize the present is made of the past and is creating the future" - Thich Nhat Hanh "I shall always act to increase possibility." - Nora Bateson It's two for one Thursday. These two quotes are interlocked at the hip. We exist in an open ended process that swims in... Continue Reading →
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." - Mahatma Gandhi Doing. Meditators and people following a spiritual path are often caught up in the world of sitting quietly, reading, or having discussions about spirituality's philosophies. I wonder what would happen if instead of studying "Buddhism" by reading and... Continue Reading →
"Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses." - Rick Warren I can do some things, I can't do others. I know some things, but the list of things I don't know is eternally long and keeps growing exponentially. And the things I do know sometimes slips a cog and... Continue Reading →
"In a time of destruction, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston A friend and I we're talking of art and the whole process of self-expression, and how it might be tied to our spiritual journey's and trajectories. It feels as though our species is driven to explore and create meaning, that we have the self... Continue Reading →
"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect." - Adam Osbourne I sat through a lecture on the Parametas yesterday. It's a word the Buddhist community uses to describe the "perfections." There are six or ten, depending on how perfect one thinks they need to be.... Continue Reading →
"When one door closes, another opens." - Alexander Graham Bell We encourage each other in this way. Hey, all is not lost. It's another way of saying that nothing begins and nothing ends. I have been conditioned into seeing all life as having a beginning and an end, like a book or a movie. But... Continue Reading →
"Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions." - Mark Twain Too. He forgot too. Experience comes from making both good and bad decisions. Although often good decision turn bad and bad decision turn good. Or something like that. I'm not as sure as a lot of other people about labeling decisions... Continue Reading →
"Your understandings are the misunderstandings." - Francis of Assisi Of course. Every time I start to think I get it, I don't. Of course "it" covers a lot of territory. Last week the "class" had homework. Doesn't that feel so grade-school-ey? Everyone thought that the idea of stopping three times a day and giving themselves... Continue Reading →
Metanoia: The journey of changing one's mind, heart, self, or way of life; spiritual conversion. - meme I'm not convinced there is an "I" who changes "My" mind. Even if there is something called "mind" that we can train like a poodle to pay attention, it keeps changing. In other words, it's difficult to keep... Continue Reading →
“Opinions are fantasy. They may be based on fact or not. Opinion presents personal bias and pre-conclusion. Opinions are language trading cards, we use them to gain value and hope to make them true. – People’s Dharma Circle
“The quality of your life will depend entirely upon the focus of your attention.” – Huber
