Arriving

A mind that is passionate is inquiring, searching, looking, asking, demanding, not merely trying to find for its discontent some object in which it can fulfill itself and go to sleep.  A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting any tradition; it is not a decided mind, not a mind that has arrived, but it is a young mind that is ever arriving.

~ J. Krishnamurti

The eternal hush of silence

Listen closely.
The eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on.  This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

~ Jack Kerouac

The time is now

It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again.  That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Looking and seeing

(Atop Bald Mountain.  Boulder, Colorado.)

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

~ Frederick Frank

The markets

The markets of the world are flowing with goods and services produced by the interplay of sun and earth, air and water, and the inexhaustible imagination and energy of human beings.  Whenever you touch an object made or conveyed by humans, you are touched by all the people who have reached their hands to make this possible for you.  Daily use is daily communion.

~ Arthur P. Moor

Born upon thy bank

I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of my dream.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Rivers

Many a time have I merely closed my eyes at the end of yet another troublesome day and soaked my bruised psyche in wild water, rivers remembered and rivers imagined.  Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadows, rivers that have eroded down deep into the mountain’s belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet’s history exposing the texture of time itself.

~ Harry Middleton

To see a mountain

It does not require a large eye to see a large mountain.  The reason is that, though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives.  In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself.  For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

~ Meher Baba

The art of being happy

(Terraces.)

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

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Fallen rock

If we are not attached to outcomes then we will not suffer from the pain of fallen expectations.

~ Master Cheng Yen