NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1310

 

• “A wedding, a baby, a holiday, a new house, a move abroad—none of these will fix the problems in a relationship. You can only heal a relationship from the inside out, with honesty, vulnerability and a mutual desire to do the work. Skip the extravagant emotional band-aids and bare your hearts to each other instead.”

• • One morning as we were all sitting zazen silently in the zendo, Suzuki Roshi said, “Don’t move.  Just die over and over.  Don’t anticipate.  Nothing can save you now, because this is your last moment.  Not even enlightenment will help you now, because you have no other moments, with no future.  Be true to yourself, and don’t move.”
• • “The hope of human brotherhood can only be realized when, and as, the divergent mind religions of authority become impregnated with, and overshadowed by, the unifying and ennobling religion of the spirit—the religion of personal spiritual experience.” - Teachings of Jesus
• • Though you may not require much, you deserve more than the bare minimum. —Brooke
• • One who seeks his treasure in the outer world is cut off from his own roots. Without roots, he becomes restless. Being restless, his mind is weak. And with a mind such as this he loses all command below Heaven. - Lao Tzu
• • “Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity.”
• • You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand
• • “The world needs to see Jesus living again on earth in the experience of spirit-born mortals who effectively reveal the Master to all men.”
• • Speech is the mirror of the soul. - Publilius Syrus