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."