August 2011
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Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
– Keith Urban
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Being Love by Baba Ram Dass →
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being...
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
– Laurence Sterne
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
– Bodhidharma
Whatever joy there is in the world arises from wishing for others’...
– Shantideva
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really...
– Sogyal Rinpoche
Fulfillment is yours
You’ve waited long enough. This is the day to take action.
The excuses are quite reasonable and understandable, and yet they have brought no value to your life. Let go of those comfortable excuses, and step forward into the bright, direct light of achievement.
The hours in this day will quickly pass no matter what you choose to do with them. So you might as well make full use of them to...
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
– Nikos Kazantzakis’ tombstone
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
– The Buddha
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It can be difficult to accept others and to accept ourselves. “I should be...
– Thubten Chodron
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect any praise or reward. If...
– Ajahn Chah
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Once you realize that you are an eternal being...
To follow the path of wisdom has never been more urgent or more difficult. Our...
– Sogyal Rinpoche
When one is very involved in hatred or attachment, if there is time or...
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama
You only lose what you cling to.
– Buddha
Our problem is that inside us there’s a mind going, “Impossible,...
– Lama Yeshe