Thursday, September 17, 2009

Quotes I would add to the list...

"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love? How deeply did you learn to let go?" - Buddha

"Try to be like the turtle--at ease in your own shell." - Bill Copeland

"My advice is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate." - Thornton Wilder

Quotes that were on my wall at work...

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

"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." - Hans Margolius

"In mountain light, all sounds
return to silence.
All that remains, the temple
bell." - Ch'ang Chien

"The fruit drops when it is ripe." - Zen saying

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an in convenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." - G. K. Chesterton

"The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is us to put ourselves in unison with this order." - Henry Miller

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." - Native American proverb

"Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more of less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that they mind is itself the principal element of creation." - Rabinranath Tagore