“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
-Lao Tzu
Categories
Category: Quotes
Categories
“Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.”
-Lao Tzu
Categories
“Meditate on knowing and not knowing, on existing and not existing. Then leave both aside so that you may be.”
-Shiva
Categories
“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of hemp fields?”
-Henry Ford
Categories
“Mind itself is the mind that leads mind into confusion.”
-Ryokan
Categories
“The True Path is meeting your eyes even now. Just attend to what is actually going on–but keep it simple and keep it clear. Just open your wisdom eye and see.”
– Steve Hagen
Categories
“Spring blossom.
Cuckoos in the hills.
Autumn leaves.
These will be my legacy.”
-Ryokan
Categories
“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
-Salvador Dali
Categories
“Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainly is a ridiculous one.”
-Voltaire
Categories
loving kindness meditation
“If anyone has hurt me or harmed me knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word or deed, I freely forgive them.
And I too ask forgiveness if I have hurt anyone or harmed anyone knowingly or unknowingly in thought, word, or deed.”
-Theravada Buddhism
Categories
“What we call ‘I’ is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and exhale.“
-Shunryu Suzuki
Categories
The Will to Survive
An excerpt from Extreme Survival:
“Over the years much research has been conducted into why it should be that some people can survive a life-threatening situation when other in the same situation are overwhelmed. Often it is not the strongest or those with the best equipment who make it, although these things undoubtedly make a big difference. Unequivocally, the same conclusion is always reached: the difference between living or dying lies in the mind. The power of mind, the resilience of the human spirit, an unshakable optimism and a mental readiness to handle the unexpected are vital in the ultimate survival situations.
“Naturally some people have these qualities in abundance, but not all. Happily there are skills that can be learned to help us achieve the necessary mental strength. Just as we can repeate movement, like the running action or biceps curl, to make our bodies physically fitter, so the same principle can also be applied to the mind. But as with getting our bodies fitter, we have to work at it and repeat the action to increase our performance.
“…The conclusion I have drawn from my experience…is that training the mind allows us to cope with situations that take us way beyond any mental or physical pain threshold we may have set ourselves, and that these mental skills, once learned, can be applied to all survival situations.
“…The two most important mental strength-building skills that can be developed can be summed up in two words – visualization and attitude.”
-Debra Searle