A moment of zen
Newt gave me a Bonsai "kit" and a Zen daily calendar as a present, I think for Christmas. The bonsai never sprouted, but the calender has been great. Here are some of my favorites.
"Where people of today dwell, I do not dwell. What people of today do, I do not do.
If you clearly understand what this really means, you must be able to enter a pit of fire with your whole body." - Huang-Long
"People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe - but usually no one else notices." - Brad Warner
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about its particular details." - Herakleitos
This one particularly resonates right now, during my quest for a PhD...
"I would like to beg you, dear sir, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day in the far future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"The flowers fall, for all our yearning; weeds grow, regardless of our dislike." - Zen saying
"Where people of today dwell, I do not dwell. What people of today do, I do not do.
If you clearly understand what this really means, you must be able to enter a pit of fire with your whole body." - Huang-Long
"People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe - but usually no one else notices." - Brad Warner
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about its particular details." - Herakleitos
This one particularly resonates right now, during my quest for a PhD...
"I would like to beg you, dear sir, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day in the far future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"The flowers fall, for all our yearning; weeds grow, regardless of our dislike." - Zen saying