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the dalai lama
if you want others to be happy, practice compassion • if you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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dante
the love of God, unutterable and perfect.
flows into a pure soul the way that light
rushes into a transparent object.
the more love that it finds, the more it gives
itself; so that, as we grow clear and open,
the more complete the joy of heaven is.
and the more souls who resonate together,
the greater the intensity of their love,
and, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other.
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danu - age 4 1/2
goodnight God.
I hope you are having
a good time being the world.
I like the world very much
I'm glad you made the plants
and trees survive with the
rain and summers.
when summer is nearly near
the leaves begin to fall.
I hope you have a good time
being the world.
I like how God feels around
everyone in the world.
God, I am very happy that
I live on you.
your arms clasp around the world.
I like you and your friends.
every time I open my eyes
I see the gleaming sun.
I like the animals - the deer,
and us creatures of the world,
the mammals.
I love my dear friends.
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dorothy day
don't call me a saint • i don't want to be dismissed that easily
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god meant things to be much easier than we have made them
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most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night • but when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.
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no one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless • there's too much work to do.
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we have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.
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what we do is very little, but it is like the little boy with a few loaves of fishes • christ took that little and increased it • he will do the rest • what we do is so little we may seem to be constantly failing • but so did He fail • he met with apparent failure on the cross • but unless the seed fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest • and why must we see results? our work is to sow • another generation is to reap the harvest.
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corrine dewinter
prayers wait patiently
in the hollows of trees,
in the blue between clouds,
at a long red light.
they wait patiently
in the warm, quick heartbeats
of small animals and infants.
they wait for a mouth to form them,
for a heart to give them life.
they are unmined jewels
ready to shine.
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annie dillard
there is no less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under Buddha’s bo tree.
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e. l. doctorow
it's like driving a car at night • you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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ani pachen dolma (from her prison isolation cell)
beloved teacher, like a great ship crossing the perilous ocean to the dry land of liberation, dispel the darkness of ignorance... like a father and mother, give your love to all sentient beings... like a river of compassion, soothe the torments of those caught in the cycle of worldly existence... release the beings in all realms • may they attain freedom.
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bob dylan
if you always do
what you always did
you will get what you
always got.
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he not busy being born is busy dying.
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