Today’s One-Liner (#351)

Even as we’re gutted by sadness so painful that we want to crawl into a hole, bury ourselves in it and die, the amazing thing about life is that it takes only the smallest of…

Vivacious Verve

  “He was wiry, suntanned, vigorous, open, all howdies and glad talk and even yelling hello to bums on the street and when asked a question answered right off the bat from the top or…

Getting Stuck

“They are still wrapped up in the same subjects as a year, two years ago. Everybody likes to stew in the same old juice year after year, myself included.” — Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: Journals…

So Many Afflicted till …

His fame spread throughout Syria, and those who were suffering from diseases and painful complaints of one kind or another, the possessed, epileptics, the paralysed, were all brought to him, and he cured them. –The…

Today’s One-Liner (#350)

Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature. –Sri Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook, 34

Present Moment Only Moment

No matter where we are, no matter what we face, we have to take care of this moment. That’s all. –Dainin Katagiri, You Have To Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight, 9 The title comes from…

A Treasure from the West

 One day, [Soen Nakagawa] and his classmates at Hiroshima Junior High School pooled their pocket money to purchase a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which had just been made available in Japan.  Overwhelmed by the…

Burning

To take care of your life is to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.–Dainin Katagiri, The Light That Shines through Infinity But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies,…

It’s Simple… and Difficult

The absence of engagement, the hours spent in one or another form of channel-surfing, is actually the chief cause of our anxiety and mental exhaustion, the sleep of the spirit the chief cause of our…