COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

1/05/2012

Meditate on This

It is a commonly held view that meditation is a way to shut off the pressures of the world or of your own mind, but this is not an accurate impression.  Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.  It is seeing clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn


At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm - a complex of wave forms and resonances which is absolutely individual and unique and yet which connects us to everything in the universe.
- George Leonard


There are no ends in life, only processes.  Change.  Spiritual reality is physical reality, clearly seen.
- Bill Voyd


                                                Nature ever flows, stands never still.
                                                Motion or change is her mode of existenca.
                                                The poetic eye sees in Man the Brother of the River
                                                and in Woman the Sister of the River.
                                                Their life is always transitions.
                                                Hard blockheads only drive nails
                                                all the time; forever...fixing.
                                                Heroes do not fix, but flow,
                                                bend forward ever and
                                                invent a resource for every moment.
                                                                  - Ralph Waldo Emerson


We never know which will come first:
Our next breath or,
Our next life. 
                                        Tibetan Proverb.