Category Archives: Inspiration
If You’ve Come to Help Me
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
~ Lila Watson
FollowThe Angel ~ Rilke
The Angel
With a slight tilt of his forehead he rejects
everything that hems in and obliges;
for the wide circles of the eternal Coming
move hugely erected through his heart.
The deep heavens stand before him full of shapes,
and each may call to him: … Continue reading
Disciple of Life ~ Tao Te Ching
Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard… Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.
~Tao Te Ching
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Play ~ Charles Eisenstein
Childhood play is practice in the exploration of limits, the loosening of inhibitions to creativity, the creative dialogue with the environment, the reimaging of the world presented us. Play is not enslaved to a preset end, but allows the end … Continue reading
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No Sign of Health
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~ Krishnamurti
If you want to be happy, be grateful
The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, … Continue reading
Remove Mutual Enmity ~ Imam Ali
“To remove mutual enmity, ill-feeling and hatred is better than recommended prayers and fasting.”
~ Imam Ali written to Imam Husayn and Hasan. (from “letter 47”)
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life ~ Dawn Markova
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, … Continue reading
Imagine ~ John Lennon
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life … Continue reading
The Farmer’s Horse ~ Taoist Tale Told by Allen Watts
When a Taoist farmer’s horse ran away, his neighbors gathered to commiserate with him since this was such bad luck. He said, “May be.” The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wild horses, and the neighbors … Continue reading