I love life
“Keep yourself a stranger and pilgrim upon earth, to whom the affairs of this world are of no concern.â€---Jon Krakauer
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances
---Atisha 4th century
"It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance."---Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
—Dhammapada, 1.1-3
"Life is very beautiful; it is structured. And to make it more beautiful, death has also been planned."---H.H. Sri Ravi Shankar
"If you have no compassion, the Lord’s Light does not shine in you. You are drowned, drowned in worldly entanglements."---Guru Granth Sahib
"Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient associations with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air,"---David Abram
"Once you questioned the religious insistence on the prevailing view that the Earth was the center of the Universe, why should you accept the repeated and confident assertion by religious leaders that God sent kings to rule over us?"---Carl Sagan
"Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom."---Latin Proverb
"So we keep asking, over and over, Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths-but is that an asnswer?"---Heinrich Heine (1854)
"There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."---Jim Morrison
"Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me."---Woody Guthrie
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams
Live the life you've always imagined."---Henry David Thoreau
"Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world."---John Lennon
I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come."---Cat Stevens
"…see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars,…and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures."---Jack Kerouac 1958
"Pain sets us to work and gives us a basis out of which to create works, which inspire pleasure, in the same way that darkness gives the sun a basis through which to shine light. The triumphant aspect of feeling great depends on one having absorbed pain. Appreciating your own value can be achieved to whatever degree you have faced feelings of your own worthlessness. Opposites give one another their meaning."---John Frusciante
