Don’t yearn to be a philosopher.
Don’t yearn to be a great teacher..
The insight you can offer pales in comparison to Mother Nature…
Step outside your ego and steep yourself in her wisdom…
Her truths are timeless…
She doesn’t need us…
We need her…
~ J. Marion Brown
The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness…
~ Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there’s always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You…
~ Elizabeth Parker
Silence is noisy until we become accustomed to it. In silence we can hear the sound of our own pulse and heartbeat, the flowing rhythms of our own blood in our veins, – and the rhythm of the Universe – in the inner ear. When we quiet the endless verbal chatter echoing through our language-filled brains, there is a quieter, more universal mode of communication and knowing waiting to be tapped…
~ T. Manekshaw
A heart that is open is an uncaged bird with sunlight under its wings and the whole sky its song…
~ Quiet Lotus
Thirty spokes join the wheel nave
And make of void and form a pair,
And a wagon’s put to use.
Clay is thrown to shape a pot
And make of void and form a pair,
And a vessel’s put to use.
Door and window vent a home,
And make of void and form a pair,
And a home is put to use.
Thus the value of what is
Depends for use on what is not…
~ Lao Tzu
Known is a drop, Unknown is an Ocean 