Clyde The Mad Tatter

Wednesday Inspiration

2012-02-01T06:09:00.000-05:00

"The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are."

-Desiderius Erasmus

Tuesday Inspiration

2012-01-31T05:14:00.000-05:00

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Monday Inspiration

2012-01-30T04:42:00.000-05:00

"Just do what you do best."

-Red Auerbach

Weekend Inspiration

2012-01-28T03:41:00.000-05:00

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."

-George Eliot

Friday Inspiration

2012-01-27T09:29:00.000-05:00

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

-Michael Jordan

Thursday Inspiration

2012-01-26T09:16:00.002-05:00

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

-Rita Mae Brown

Wednesday Inspiration

2012-01-25T09:47:00.002-05:00

Sorry no picture today, but I am having computer problems.

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there was only joy in the world."

-Helen Keller

Tuesday Inspiration

2012-01-24T05:15:00.000-05:00

"Life is just one damned thing after another."

-Elbert Hubbard

Monday Inspiration

2012-01-23T05:35:00.000-05:00

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

-John Lubbock

Weekend Inspiration

2012-01-21T08:28:00.001-05:00

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

Friday Inspiration

2012-01-20T08:20:00.000-05:00

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly."

--Henry J. Kaiser

Thursday Inspiration

2012-01-19T08:13:00.002-05:00

"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."

--Emile Coue

Wednesday Inspiration

2012-01-18T07:05:00.001-05:00

"Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

--Earl Nightingale

Tuesday Inspiration

2012-01-17T06:13:00.000-05:00

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

-Anais Nin

Monday Inspiration

2012-01-16T07:52:00.000-05:00

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

___ Lord Byron

Weekend Inspiration

2012-01-14T10:38:00.000-05:00

"Doubt whom you will,

But never yourself."

___ Christian N. Bovee

Friday Inspiration

2012-01-13T05:15:00.001-05:00

"You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do."

_____ Bob Richards

Thursday Inspiration

2012-01-12T06:02:00.000-05:00

"May you live all the days of your life."

_____ Jonathan Swift

Tuesday Inspiration

2012-01-10T09:12:00.000-05:00

"People are capable, at any time of their lives, of doing what they dream of."

_____ Paulo Coelho

Monday Inspiration

2012-01-09T08:12:00.000-05:00

I am taking part in a pay it forward challenge on Facebook. Be one of the first 5 people to leave a comment and join the challenge and you will receive a handmade item from me.

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

_____ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Weekend Inspiration

2012-01-07T10:36:00.000-05:00

"To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart."

_____ Christy Borgeld

Friday Inspiration

2012-01-06T06:33:00.000-05:00

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

_____ John D. Rockefeller

Thursday Inspiration

2012-01-05T05:24:00.001-05:00

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

_____ Plato

Wednesday Inspiration

2012-01-04T07:04:00.000-05:00

"Uncertainty and expectations are the joys of life."

_____ William Congreve

Monday Inspiration

2012-01-02T07:15:00.000-05:00

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

_____ Gandhi

Weekend Inspiration

2011-12-31T06:02:00.002-05:00

I am really looking forward to this New Years inspirations. All of the inspirations for this up coming year are centered on the theme of being good to yourself, because if you are not good to yourself it is impossible to be good to others. I hope you will enjoy them.

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Live the life you've imagined."

_____Henry David Thoreau

Friday Inspiration

2011-12-30T08:11:00.000-05:00

"All the way to heaven is heaven."

_____ St. Catherine of Siena

Thursday Inspiration

2011-12-29T07:36:00.000-05:00

"The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors."

_____ Plautus

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-12-28T04:44:00.000-05:00

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone.....The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non essentials."

_____ Lin Yutang

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-12-27T09:21:00.000-05:00

"Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

_____ Thich Nhat Hanh

Monday Inspiration

2011-12-26T09:32:00.000-05:00

"As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not moved by praise or blame."

_____ The Dhammapada

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T09:34:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope all my friends get to celebrate this day with there loved ones.

Weekend Inspiration

2011-12-24T04:18:00.000-05:00

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."

_____ Buddha

Friday Inspiration

2011-12-23T10:56:00.001-05:00

"Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem."

_____ Seung Sahn

Thursday Inspiration

2011-12-22T05:17:00.001-05:00

"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things... but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."

_____ James Carroll

Wednesday Inspirayion

2011-12-21T04:27:00.002-05:00

"If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer."

_____ David Deida

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-12-20T10:11:00.000-05:00

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

_____ Aldous Huxley

Monday Inspiration

2011-12-19T06:16:00.000-05:00

"The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it."

_____ Bhante Y. Wimala

Weekend Inspiration

2011-12-17T10:11:00.001-05:00

"Where your treasure is, there will be your heart also."

_____ Luke 12:34

Friday Inspiration

2011-12-16T04:35:00.001-05:00

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."

_____ Buddha

Thursday Inspiration

2011-12-15T05:05:00.000-05:00

"The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims."

_____ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-12-14T09:20:00.001-05:00

"Calm soul of all things! make it mine

To feel, amid the city's jar,

That there abides a place of thine,

Man did not make, and can not mar."

_____ Matthew Arnold

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-12-13T06:39:00.000-05:00

"In the root and stem of your own psyche, there is an accumulation of bad habits. If you cannot see through them and act independently of them, you will unavoidably get bogged down along the way."

_____ Yuansou

Monday Inspiration

2011-12-12T05:17:00.001-05:00

"We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them."

_____ Kahlil Gibran

Weekend Inspiration

2011-12-11T06:38:00.001-05:00

"Wealth and honor are what people want, but if they are the consequence of deviating from the Way, I would have no part in them. Poverty and disgrace are what people deplore, but if they are the consequence of staying on the Way, I would not avoid them."

_____ Confucius

Friday Inspiration

2011-12-09T04:46:00.001-05:00

"We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath."

_____ Lawrence Binyon

Thursday Inspiration

2011-12-08T09:41:00.001-05:00

"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now."

_____ Neale Donald Walsch

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-12-07T05:52:00.001-05:00

"Heaven and heart remain peacefully unmoved,yet their life breath is unceasing, and is seldom known to rest."

_____ Hung Ying-Ming

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-12-06T05:03:00.001-05:00

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

_____ Thich Nhat Hanh

Monday Inspiration

2011-12-05T06:28:00.001-05:00

"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

_____ Louis L'Amour

Weekend Inspiration

2011-12-03T10:02:00.001-05:00

"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering."

_____ Francis Fenelon

Friday Inspiration

2011-12-02T06:35:00.000-05:00

"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed."

_____ Buddha

Thursday Inspiration

2011-12-01T11:09:00.001-05:00

"Be the master of the mind, rather than mastered by the mind."

_____ Zen saying

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-11-30T07:38:00.001-05:00

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

_____ Vivekananda

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-11-29T04:58:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-28T08:53:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-26T08:22:00.001-05:00

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

2011-11-25T09:18:00.001-05:00

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

_____ Martin Luther King Jr.

Thursday Inspiration

2011-11-24T09:08:00.001-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.

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

_____ Albert Einstein

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-11-23T06:27:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-22T05:35:00.001-05:00

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

_____ Wu-hsin

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-11-16T04:20:00.001-05:00

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

2011-11-15T05:05:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-14T07:39:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-12T10:17:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-11T10:14:00.001-05:00

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

_____ Lao-tzu

Thursday Inspiration

2011-11-10T07:02:00.000-05:00

"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

2011-11-09T05:52:00.000-05:00

"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

2011-11-08T05:11:00.001-05:00

"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

2011-11-07T06:59:00.002-05:00

"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

2011-11-05T08:48:00.001-04:00

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

_____ Gandhi

Friday Inspiration

2011-11-04T02:27:00.000-04:00

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

_____ Marcel Proust

Thursday Inspiration

2011-11-03T10:46:00.000-04:00

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

_____ Martha Washington

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-11-02T04:43:00.000-04:00

"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

2011-11-01T09:12:00.000-04:00

"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

Monday Inspiration

2011-10-31T08:56:00.000-04:00

Sorry no picture today as blogger is not working properly.

"The lesson that life reappears and constantly enforces is 'Look under foot'. You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think."

_____ John Burroughs

Weekend Inspiration

2011-10-29T11:53:00.000-04:00

"There is only one world, the world pressing against you this minute."

_____ Storm Jameson

Friday Inspiration

2011-10-28T09:53:00.001-04:00

"To see clearly is poetry, philosophy, and religion, all in one."

_____ John Ruskin

Thursday Inspiration

2011-10-27T05:25:00.000-04:00

"You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving-kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible."

_____ Jack Kornfield

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-10-26T08:49:00.000-04:00

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

_____ Socrates

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-10-25T08:34:00.000-04:00

"I claim to be no more the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if she or he would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."

_____ Gandhi

Monday Inspiration

2011-10-24T07:37:00.000-04:00

"Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear;

Trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity."

_____ Bhagavad Gita

Weekend Inspiration

2011-10-22T08:55:00.000-04:00

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

_____ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friday Inspiration

2011-10-21T09:19:00.000-04:00

"Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace.... Peace will be the last word of history."

_____ John Paul II

Thursday Inspiration

2011-10-20T05:33:00.000-04:00

"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet."

_____ William Butler Yeats

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-10-19T09:25:00.002-04:00

"To live here and now you must train yourself: In the seen there will be just the seen, in the heard just the heard, in the sensed just the sensed, in the thought just the thought. That is the end of sorrow."

_____ Buddha

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-10-18T04:48:00.000-04:00

"Once we recognize that thoughts are empty,

The mind will no longer have the power to deceive us."

_____ Khyetse Rinpoche

Monday Inspiration

2011-10-17T05:30:00.000-04:00

"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times."

_____ Thomas Merton

Weekend Imspiration

2011-10-15T22:39:00.000-04:00

"If your eyes are blinded with your worries,

You cannot see the beauty of the sunset."

_____ Krishnamurti

Friday Inspiration

2011-10-14T09:27:00.000-04:00

"Doubt everything. Find your own light."

_____ Buddha

Thursday Inspiration

2011-10-13T09:01:00.000-04:00

"Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot posses our children, lovers, family our friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes."

_____ Jack Kornfield

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-10-12T09:16:00.000-04:00

"You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you."

_____ Paramahansa Yogananda

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-10-11T05:37:00.000-04:00

"As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all that changes on this earth."

_____ Buddha

Monday Inspiration

2011-10-10T05:44:00.000-04:00

"He who thinks to reach God by running away from the world, when and where does he expect to meet him?

We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment."

_____ Rabindranath Tagore

Weekend Inspiration

2011-10-08T09:04:00.000-04:00

"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those that think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination."

_____ Joseph Campbell

Friday Inspiration

2011-10-07T09:16:00.000-04:00

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and words and deed.

Always at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

_____ Gandhi

Thursday Inspiration

2011-10-06T10:24:00.002-04:00

"The art of living...is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists of being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."

_____ Alan Watts

Wednesday Inspiration

2011-10-05T06:28:00.000-04:00

"If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

If you want to see the brave, look to those who can forgive."

_____ Bhagavad Gita

Tuesday Inspiration

2011-10-04T05:43:00.000-04:00

"We carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others."

_____ Albert Camus

Monday Inspiration

2011-10-03T06:33:00.000-04:00

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

_____ Aristotle