"Live in love
And do your work;
Make amends of your sorrows;
For just as the jasmine
Releases and lets fall its withered flowers,
Let fall willfulness and hatred."
_____ The Dhammapada
"Friend, hope for the truth while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive. What you call salvation belongs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you think ghosts will do lt after."
_____ Kabir
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"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment
And to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."
_____ Thich Nhat Nanh
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways- either by losing hope and falling into
Self destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
_____ Dalai Lama
"Most people think that we live in the actual world while we are alive, and that after we take the last breath we somehow wander into the vague realm of the spirit. It is a great mistake to see two separate realms."
_____ Soen Nakagawa
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness
From the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers."
_____ Kahlil Gibran
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, It is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transcience, we suffer." _____ D. T. Suzuki
"Root out the violence in your life, and lesarn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible." _____ Thich Nhat Hanh
"...to look life in the face, always to look life in the face, and to know what it is, to love it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is. And then to put it away." _____ Virginia Woolf
This is a doily I just finished making using Lady Shuttlemakers Silk Hand Dyed Thread size 60 colour Middle Earth. The pattern is just one I made up as I went along. Below is a picture of the doily that I am giving away along with 50 yards of Middle Earth HDT, size 60. All you have to do to be entered is to leave a comment with your name. Good luck. Deadline is thursday noon. Due to the overwhelming response to my giveaway I have decided to change it a little to give more people a chance to win. There will now be 3 prizes. 1. The green doily 2. 50 yard skein of Middle Earth HDT size 60 by Lady Shuttlemaker 3. A small skein of Peace HDT size 80 by Yarnplayer