Art

[Art] means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.

~Adrienne Rich

R.I.P. Ms. Rich

Spring

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Inner Peace

Holding to our object of focus and recognizing our repeated distraction serves to interrupt the obsessive train of thoughts and preoccupations, so that over time we develop some inner peace and stability.

~Dorje Loppön - Eric Holm

Concentration

Watch little children at play: From their absorption in the moment, learn the secret of concentration.

~J. Donald Walters

Life Story

Also, I thought I am old, so after I die I cannot bring my story with me. So I leave this story.

~Ani Pachen

Race

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

~Margaret Atwood

Creativity

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

~Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel

Homeless

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

~Jan Schakowsky

Snow

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

~J. B. Priestley

Good Composition

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

~Robert Henri

Spiritual Path

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart.

~Jack Kornfield

Wild and Precious Life

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

~Mary Oliver

Here's to a Blessed New Year!

Winter...

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
~Edith Sitwell

Happy Winter Solstice!

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

Luck

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
~Dalai Lama

Cry...

Cry you did not.
~Origami Yoda

Whilst the Leaves

Cool murmur of water through apple-wood
Troughs without number
The whole orchard fills, whilst the leaves
Lend their music to slumber.
~Sappho

Crow

On a bare branch,

a crow has landed:

autumn nightfall.
~Basho

Love Rain

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. ~Billie Holiday