H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Buddha

"Anger will never disappear solong as thoughts of resentment arecherished in the mind. Anger willdisappear just as soon as thoughtsof resentment are forgotten."

Katherine Paterson

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Buddha

"Everything changes, nothingremains without change."

Martha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.

~The Buddha

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.

Lha Bab Duchen

One of the main festivals of the Buddhist calendar is this week and it's called the Lha Bab Duchen - the festival of the Buddha's descent from heaven.

In a way it's like a second coming of the Buddha. He comes back from heaven where he went, during his life, to teach the Dharma to his mother for three months.

His mother had died one week after his birth and he had been brought up by his mother's sister who married his father and was therefore his step-mother.

However, he owed his birth and we owe his birth to his mother, Queen Maya. He was repaying her his great debt to her as his mother. This is a very important Buddhist sentiment, both the repaying of a kindness in general and in particular of repaying the kindness of one's mother, indeed of both of one's parents and all those who care for us and teach us how to live.

In the Buddhist view of the Universe none of our relationships are arbitrary or meaningless and we owe most to those from whom we receive most.

Carl G. Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Buddha

"A jug fills drop by drop."

Diane Roger

You are an unrepeatable miracle.

H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Allan Watts

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Udana 10

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Janis Joplin

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.

Baba Hari Dass

"No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself."

Carol Welch

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.

Francis Bacon

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Jackson Browne

You do not need to remind me of my failures. I have not forgotten them.

Epictetus

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Christian Bovee

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Louisa May Alcott

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Francis Bacon

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Lady Bird Johnson

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Sutta Nipata

Develop the mind of equilibrium.You will always be getting praise and blame,but do not let either affect the poise of the mind:follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

Sallust

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.