Apr
1
2010
A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand becoming, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean.
It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.
It is a way [...]
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Mar
25
2010
But the truth, the first truth,
probably,
is that we are all connected,
watching one another.
Even the trees.
Arthur Miller, Timebends
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Mar
23
2010
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
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Dec
27
2009
And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.
And he answered saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your [...]
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Jul
2
2009
If you could get rid
Of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets
Would open to you.
The face of the unknown,
Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the
Mirror of your perception.
Rumi
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Jun
29
2009
From wonder into wonder existence opens
Lao Tzu
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May
27
2009
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other
Douglas H. Everett
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