Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?
Four, actually:
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato (attributions vary)
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare (in HamLet)
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
Epictetus
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
James a. Michener
nothing says Christmas like and orchid blooming in December.
What tears away in leaving,
when one has grown into:
- a person?
- a place?
Can one grow into someone
(or somewhere) such that
one is fused in a way that
won't allow separation
without leaving a sacrifice?
Maybe one can't help but be
webbed into some wider world,
and can't help but leave
pieces of oneself littering the Earth.
the sharp caw of a crow triggers a monk's enlightenment. a second crow responds. a sailor doesn't look up.
watching the sky, as i walk up the hill, i trip on a rock.
There was a Zen master named Ikkyū who was thought by many to be cuckoo. He'd allow a toot on his very own flute. Which was unbecoming of flutists (& monks, too.)
Said a construction worker in Doha, "I don't mean to sound so bourgeois, but being paid 'd be nice, and not with a cot -n- plain rice. Pardon if I show too much chutzpah."
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