Friday Inspiration

"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

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

_____ Zen saying

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

Monday Inspiration

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"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

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

_____ Storm Jameson

Friday Inspiration

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

_____ John Ruskin

Thursday Inspiration

"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

"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

"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

"Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear;

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

_____ Bhagavad Gita

Weekend Inspiration

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Once we recognize that thoughts are empty,

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

_____ Khyetse Rinpoche

Monday Inspiration

"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

"If your eyes are blinded with your worries,

You cannot see the beauty of the sunset."

_____ Krishnamurti

Friday Inspiration

"Doubt everything. Find your own light."

_____ Buddha

Thursday Inspiration

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

_____ Gandhi

Thursday Inspiration

"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

"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

"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

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

_____ Aristotle

Weekend Inspiration

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"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth,

Unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."

_____ The Dhammapada