Weekend Inspiration

"In this world hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. You to shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?"
_____ Buddha
“Not to have the flexibility to change is a tragedy in itself, and have too much flexibility not to stand for anything is a tragedy in itself.”
_____ Yogi Bhajan

Wednesday's Inspiration

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended upon it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like Autumn and Winter they gradually pass away."
_____ Chuang Tzu

"Practice not-doing, and everything will fall in place."
_____ Lao-Tzu

Monday's Message

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to it what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly to you."
_____ Thomas Dreier

Taking a Break

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I am taking a break from blogging this week so I can devote my time to test tatting. See you Monday.

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Knowing that I am of the same nature as all other natural things, I know that there is no separate self, no separate personality, no absolute death and no absolute life."
_____ T'ien Tung-Hsu

Monday's Message

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?"
_____ Kahlil Gibran

Weekend Inspiration

"A happy life consists of tranquility of mind.
_____ Cicero

Friday's Inspiration

"You shouldn't allow yourself to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this. What is there affliction? Their affliction is in their lack of self-confidence."
_____ Linji

Thursday's Inspiration

"A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth not."
_____ Akhenaton

Wednesday's Inspiration

"Life just is.You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen."
_____ Jerry Brown

Happy Thanksgiving Day Canada

Today we celebrate Thanksgiving Day in Canada. For me it is an opportunity to give thanks for the good and bad in my life that make it what it is. It may sound a bit crazy for being thankful for the bad, but I survived it, I have made peace with it as best as I can at this time and because I lived through it I have been blessed with a super caring and understanding personality. I have the gift of being able to help others through horrible things because I have been there. I have moved past the role of victim and now help those who are victimized.

So today I am thank full for the person I have become. A father with 2 great children. A listener for those who need one, a helper for those I can help. A person to turn to when life gets you down. A smile to help change that frown.

I would like to thank all my tatter friends who inspire me to be a better tatter. Thank you for your patterns, techniques, ideas and compliments. I count you among my best friends.

Weekend Inspiration

"Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness...."
_____ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thursday's Inspiration

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are your greatest treasures.
_____ Lao-Tzu

Wednesday's Inspiration

"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; do not like, do not dislike: all will then be clear."
_____ Seng-Ts'an

Tuesday's Inspiration

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
_____ Krishnamurti

Tatting and Inspiration

I know it has been awhile since there has been pictures of tatting but here is a doily that I just finished. The pattern is called Mom's Pink Doily and was designed by Nancy Tracy. The pattern can be found here. This doily is made with Oren Bayan size perle 12 colour #865. The doily still needs to be blocked.



And here is today's inspiration.
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
_____ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Inspiration

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
_____ Henry Miller

Thursday's Inspiration

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
_____ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wednesday's Inspiration

"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to 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's Inspiration

"The greater part of our happiness and misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
_____ Martha Washington

Monday's Message

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
_____ Marcel Proust

Weekend Inspiration

These planters are at the front of the Parks and Recreation office in Brantford.

"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. Frances of Assisi




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

Thursday's 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

Wednesday's Inspiration

I just love this hand sculpture that is at our Glenhyrst Art Gallery grounds. The sculpture is made out of different thicknesses of re-bar.

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
_____ Anne Frank

Tuesday's 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

Monday's Message

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

Weekend Inspiration

Carpet Bed done by Gregg.

"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 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's 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

Thursday's 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 find 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 Forty-Two Chapters

Wednesday's Inspiration

Wave Petunia Bonsai Tree 2010

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

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Worldly ups and downs should be treated as lightly as clouds gathering and breaking up."
_____ Anonymous

Monday's Message

Picture of the Grand River that flows through Brantford.

Sometimes the qoutes that are on my calender make no sense to me. Unfortunately today is one of those day's.

"Events and hopes seldom agree. Who can step back does not worry. We blossom and fade like flowers, gather and part like clouds. Worldly thoughts I forgot long ago, relaxing all day on a peak."
____ Stonehouse

Weekend Inspiration

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

Friday's Inspiration

"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless."
_____ T. S. Eliot


"Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden."
_____ D. T. Suzuki

Wednesday's 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's Inspiration

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

Monday's Message

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
_____ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friday's Inspiration

Sorry I missed yesterday but here are two today to make up for it.

"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

"We can sense the ever-changing waves around us, and breathe and relax. We can rest in the eternal present, the still point. We can learn that no matter what happens, we are home."
____ Jack Kornfield

Thursday's 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

Post Number 300

WOW. This is post 300. I find it amazing that my blog has gone on this long. When I started it my thinking was I might do a post twice a month and when I saw other blogs and saw they had 25,000 visitors I never thought it would happen with mine. I would like to thank everbody for there support and so far I have had over 25,000 visits.

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

Tuesday's Inspiration

"....I have nothing to report, my friends.
If you want to find the meaning,
stop chasing after so many things."
_____ Ryokan

Monday's Message

"Like a child in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are- as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy."
_____ Bo Lozoff