Tue 13 Jul 2010
WATER
“Be like water. Water takes whatever shape it finds itself in. It does not judge or complain, it does not try to change things. Is is the source of patience. Given time it can wear away stone.”
Chuang Tzu
Jim Bennett
Tue 13 Jul 2010
WATER
“Be like water. Water takes whatever shape it finds itself in. It does not judge or complain, it does not try to change things. Is is the source of patience. Given time it can wear away stone.”
Chuang Tzu
Thu 31 Dec 2009
FIDELITY
“Tak ma haun ma trusty frien fur Auld Lang Syne.”
Robert Burns
Sun 4 Oct 2009
THINKING
“There is nothing either good or bad - thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
Sat 1 Aug 2009
SILENCE
“In the ocean of silence you will find peace, love and wisdom.”
Jim
Wed 15 Jul 2009
NO-MINDEDNESS (Wu-hsin)
“No mindedness is nonfixation - it is not a blank mind that excludes all emotions; nor is it simply callousness and quietness of mind. It is the ‘non-graspiness’ of the mind that constitutes the principle of ‘non-mindness’. The localisation of the mind means that it’s freezing..”
Bruce Lee
Fri 26 Jun 2009
STILLNESS
“Non-action is the real action. One hundred acts are not as good as one moment of standing still. Big action is not as good as small action. Small action is not as good as non-action.”
Wang Xiang Zhai
Mon 23 Mar 2009
TRUTHS ARE US
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
Walter Lippmann
Fri 13 Mar 2009
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE?
“YOU are the NOW.”
Eckhart Tolle
Fri 30 Jan 2009
WORRY FREE
“Leave home in the sunshine: dance through a meadow - or sit by a stream and just be. The lilt of the water will gather your worries and carry them down to the sea.”
J. Donald Walters
Wed 21 Jan 2009
EYE OF THE STORM
“In the midst of chaos when I reach the eye of the storm I enter stillness. From within I find strength and stability to meet all.”
Jim
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