Weekend Inspiration

"Try to be like the turtle-at ease in your own shell."
_____ Bill Copeland

Friday's Inspiration

"There's no time for confused thoughts.
Practice the meaning of single-mindedness."
_____ Godrakpa

Thursday's Inspiration

"Sincerity is the fulfilment of our own nature, and to arrive at it we need only follow our own true Self. Sincerity is the beginning and end of existence; without it, nothing can endure. Therefore the mature person values sincerity above all things."
_____ Tzu-Ssu

Wednesday's Inspiration

"One ought to be mixed up with the world and be able to wash one's hands of it-to be part of the world and also outside of it.
One [has] to be both involved and detached at the same time."
_____ The Kotzker

Tuesday's Inspiration

"By sitting alone all day long
I clear my mind of a thousand thoughts.
To speak of this is beyond words;
Only by sitting under the quiet forest
Can we ever understand."
_____ Fa Yen

Monday's Message

"Spring has its hundred flowers, Autumn its many moons. Summer has cool winds, Winter its snow.
If useless thoughts do not cloud your mind, each day is the best of your life."
_____ Wu-Men-Hui-Kai

Weekend Inspiration

"How can we ever lose interest in life?
Spring has come again
And cherry trees bloom in the mountains."
_____ Ryokan

Friday's Inspiration

"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?"
_____ Buddha

Thursday's Inspiration

"Be broad-minded,
Whole,without relying on others."
_____ Hongzhi Zhengjue

Wednesday's Inspiration

"The practice of true reality
Is simply to sit serenely
In silent introspection.
When you have fathomed this,
You cannot be turned around
By external causes and conditions."
_____Hongzhi Zhengjue

Tuesday's Inspiration

"In prayer, come empty, do nothing."
_____ St. John of the Cross

Monday's Message

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." _____ Rabindranath Tagore

Weekend Inspiration

These are the first seven rows of a doily I am making for a friend. I am making it to match an antique doily that she has. "Don't be surprised, Don't be startled; All things will arrange themselves. Don't cause a disturbance, Don't exert pressure; All things will clarify themselves." _____ Huai-nan-tzu

Friday's Inspiration

"The wholeness of life, from of old, Been made manifest in its parts; Clarity has been made manifest in heaven, Firmness in earth, Purity in the spirit...." _____ Lao-tzu

Thursday's Inspiration

"Speak the truth, do not become angered, and give when asked, even be it a little.
By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods."
_____ Buddha

Wednesday's Inspiration

"If you understand, things are just as they are; If you do not understand, things are just as they are." _____ Zen Proverb

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, Can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." _____ John Dryden

Monday's Message

"The journey is there and every single one of us has to go through it, and you can't dodge it, and the purpose of everything and the whole of existence is to equip you to take another step, and another step, and another step, and so on." _____ Jesse Watkins

Weekend Inspiration

"The quieter you become, The more you can hear." _____ Ram Dass

Friday's Inspiration

"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both." _____ Francoise Rene Auguste Chateaubriand

Thursday's Inspiration

"We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change." _____ Allen Wheelis

Tatting and Inspiration

This is the first 5 rows of a tatted doily that I am making as a surprise for a friend. The pattern comes from a doily that she bought from an antique store and I am making it so she has a set of matching doilies. "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis. It is necessary to be exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation." _____ Lao-tzu

Tuesday's Inspiration

"In calmness there should be activity, In activity there should be calmness." _____ Anonymous

Monday's Message

"Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation." _____ Rabindranath Tagore

Friday's Inspiration

"It is not the length of life, but depth of life." _____ Ralph Waldo Emerson