Ryokan 1758-1831
Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why...
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Lucy Chan
Oct 221 min read
How to Heal by Jeff Foster
Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced. It happens when the conditions are right. When there is just enough love,...
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Ethan Pollock
Oct 101 min read
Fundamentalism by Naomi Shihab Nye
Because the eye has a short shadow or it is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarter but you need your own...
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Ethan Pollock
Oct 11 min read
Rumi 1207-1273
Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up...
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Ethan Pollock
Sep 201 min read
The River Cannot Go Back by Kahlil Gibran
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...
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Lucy Chan
Sep 31 min read
Quote by Tara Brach
One of the great teachings in spiritual life is this: It doesn’t matter what is happening. What matters is how we respond. How we...
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Ethan Pollock
Aug 131 min read
The Summers Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...
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Ethan Pollock
Jul 161 min read
Jealous of a Pond by Rabia of Basra (c. 717-801)
When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...
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Lucy Chan
Apr 161 min read
Quote by Alice Walker
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry...
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Ethan Pollock
Apr 22 min read
Please Call me by my True Names- Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...
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Lucy Chan
Mar 261 min read
Quote by Pema Chodron
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace...
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Lucy Chan
Feb 61 min read
Quote on inner listening by Kaira Jewel Lingo
"This listening to ourselves is what we want to be doing everyday – how am I doing, what's happening in my mind, my body, my feelings....
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Ethan Pollock
Jan 251 min read
Li Bai (701-762)
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other...
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Ethan Pollock
Jan 91 min read
Keizan Jokin
Though we find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky of autumn, how can that compare with the hazy moon on a spring night? Some...
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Ethan Pollock
Dec 7, 20231 min read
Watching The Moon by Izumi Shikibu
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. by Izumi Shikibu (Original Language...
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Ethan Pollock
Nov 14, 20231 min read
A Great Need by Hafiz
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too...
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Ethan Pollock
Oct 12, 20231 min read
'Saint Francis and the Sow' By Galway Kinnell
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...
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Ethan Pollock
Sep 28, 20231 min read
'Don’t meditate to fix yourself' quote by Bob Sharples
Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself, rather do it as an act of love of deep warm...
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Lucy Chan
Sep 28, 20231 min read
Wayfarer, there is no path by Antonio Machado
Wayfarer, there is no path by Antonio Machado (translated by Ramiro Ortega) Wayfarer, your footprints are the only road; nothing else....
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Lucy Chan
Sep 5, 20231 min read
The Human Body at Peace with Itself by Tsongkhapa
The human body, at peace with itself, Is more precious than the rarest gem. Cherish your body - it is yours this time only. The human...
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