I’m listening to my baby babble happily to his mobile as he’s taking his time getting to sleep, and it’s a beautiful sound. He’s one reason I’ve devoted myself to getting my focus together to create things that feel important to me, since I want him to own his voice and use it wisely and [...]
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Fear of death seems to be a fear of life – not of its endings, but of its capricious unknowns.
Posted in Quotes, Living, tagged philosophy, hope, thoughts, zen, taoism, daily living, waking up, inspiration, Quotes, perspective, present moment, enlightenment, self improvement, acceptance, inner peace, change, patience, self-awareness, death, letting go, fear, writing, creativity on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Life’s victory is in finishing well, not in finishing first.
Posted in Living, Poetry, Quotes, tagged alan watts, books, Christianity, creative, culture, ebooks, faith, hope, inspiration, life, love, personal, philosophy, poem a day, Poetry, politics, religion, running, self-confidence, self-esteem, spirituality, taoism, Thich Nhat Hanh, thoughts, validation, writing, zen on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’m blogging off a comment I put down for Jo Ann J. A. Jordan, one of WordPress’s many genuine poets. While writing it, I realized I want to tell this to everyone, and for them to feel the truth in it. Let’s see how this goes… One of life’s tragedies is that we feel [...]
Mattchoo Zen
Posted in Quotes, tagged enlightenment, philosophy, pragmatism, self-awareness, taoism, waking up, zen on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Came across this quote recently, which struck me as perfectly speaking to the mindset of someone I know. Maybe it’ll have some things to say to you, too… The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we [...]
Happy Newer Year!
Posted in Quotes, Zen Story, tagged acceptance, letting go, patience, perspective, philosophy, taoism, zen on January 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Quite a very lot much has happened since my last post. I’ve kept meaning to come back and catch up on posting again, but something kept distracting me. In fact, I’d planned to post a happy new year and begin again on the 1st, but again, got sidetracked and didn’t. It started to bug me, [...]
There’s been warm sunny days in December, and snow in the pass in June. You can’t always even predict the predictable.
Posted in Quotes, tagged hope, Jonathan Winters, philosophy, probability, taoism, zen on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love Jonathan Winters. I first saw him as a kid on Mork & Mindy (and loved him both as Mindy’s uncle and then later as their alien kid) and then off and on through other things I happened to catch him in. I haven’t seen him often, but he always seemed to carry both [...]
Just a little food for thought.
Posted in Quotes on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been all kinds of munchy this week, so today’s thoughts are two (funny to me) pages from my calendar that came almost back-to-back a week or so ago: Enlightenment is: do what you want eat what there is. – Jack Kerouac Someone asked Master Yun-men, “What is the most urgent phrase?” The Master said, [...]
Just for today, let yourself feel the way you’d always hoped you’d someday feel.
Posted in Quotes, tagged acceptance, beauty, daily living, enlightenment, gratitude, happiness, hope, inner peace, inspiration, meditation, Mikao Usui, patience, perspective, philosophy, present mind, reiki, relaxation, self improvement, self-awareness, taoism, thoughts, zen on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I went to Wikipedia to look up the spelling of Reiki, which it calls “a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Mikao Usui”. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a tradition that says there is an intelligent force of energy that exist throughout the universe and within us, and that with training, you can [...]
Sometimes it’s when you’re unable to really look that you stumble on what you were looking forr.
Posted in Quotes, tagged Joseph Conrad, philosophy, taoism, work, zen on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back from being ill at the beginning of the week, and swamped yesterday! Getting my head back together, I caught up with my calendar and came across the quote from yesterday that I’m gonna share: I don’t like work — no man does — but I like what is in work — the chance [...]
That’s about the size, where you put your eyes, that’s about the size of it!
Posted in Quotes, tagged Anais Nin, Huangbo Xiyun, perspective, philosophy, taoism, zen on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got a couple thoughts on perspective, from a 20th century Cuban-Catalan-French author and a 9th century Chinese zen master. I like the very different worlds the two came from, to arrive at a very similar point: We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are. – Anais Nin The wise [...]
A pretty good recipe for a happy, healthy life.
Posted in Quotes, tagged happiness, inner peace, letting go, love, patience, peace, perspective, philosophy, taoism, thoughts, tolerance, Walt Whitman, zen on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s thought is yet another saying I’ve had by my desk to think about when I notice it. I don’t have much to say about it because it’s something I’m still turning over in my head. It’s like a full-growing garden, I suppose: every time I look at it something else comes to my attention, [...]
