Wednesday Inspiration

"He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God."

_____ Vivekananda

Tuesday Inspiration

"Develop a mind that is vast like the water, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast water."

_____ Buddha

Monday Inspiration

"When we act out of our negativity, the effect is like carving it into stone. The imprint remains for a long, long time."

_____ Genpo Merzel

Christmas Tatting and Inspiration

As you can see I am tatting a choir of angels for Christmas this year. They are tatted using ecru DMC Cebelia size 30 thread and the pattern can be found in Christmas Angels and Other Tatting Patterns by Monica Hahn. The pattern is on page 8 and is called Angel#2.

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

_____ Indira Gandhi

Friday Inspiration

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny."

_____ Martin Luther King Jr.

Thursday Inspiration

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

_____ Albert Einstein

Wednesday Inspiration

"When you are guided by compassion and loving kindness, you are able to look deeply into the heart of reality and see the truth."

_____Thich Nhat Hanh

Tuesday Inspiration

"If you fail to achieve freedom in this life, when do you expect to achieve it?"

_____ Wu-hsin

Wednesday Inspiration

Hi. Just want to let everyone know that there will be no more inspiration messages for the rest of the week because I am having surgery tomorrow. Have a good weekend.

"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker."

_____ The Dhammapada

Tuesday Inspiration

"Those who have strong passions are never able to perceive the Way. It is like stirring up clear water with your hands; you may come wishing to see a reflection of your face, but you'll never see clearly in disturbed waters. A mind troubled and vexed with passions is never able to see the Way.

_____ Sutra of the Forty-two Chapters

Monday Inspiration

"We have long forgotten that activities can be simple and precise. Every act of our lives can contain simplicity and precision and thus can have tremendous beauty and dignity."

_____ Chogyam Trungpa

Weekend Inspiration

"It is proper to doubt. Do not be led by holy scriptures, or by mere logic or inference, or by appearances, or by the authority of religious leaders. But when you realize that something is unwholesome and bad for you, give it up. And when you realize that something is wholesome and good for you, do it."

_____ Buddha

Friday Inspiration

"Consider life and death equal, and the intellect is not afraid; consider change as sameness, and clarity is not obscured."

_____ Lao-tzu

Thursday Inspiration

"God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is."

_____ Marianne Williamson

Wednesday Inspiration

"It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress."

_____ John Pierce

Tuesday Inspiration

"When you do a thing, do it with the whole self. One thing at a time. Now I sit here and I eat. For me nothing exists in the world except this food, this table. I eat with the whole attention. So you must do-in everything."

_____ George J. Gurdjieff

Monday Inspiration

"For it is by giving that one receives; it is by self-forgetting that one finds; it is by forgiving that one is forgiven; it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life."

_____ St. Francis of Assisi

Weekend Inspiration

"The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought."

_____ Gandhi

Friday Inspiration

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

_____ Marcel Proust

Thursday Inspiration

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."

_____ Martha Washington

Wednesday Inspiration

"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."

_____ Gandhi

Tuesday Inspiration

"There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety, being wise, he is free from perplexity, being brave, he is free from fear."

_____ Confucius