Weekly Gems Quote of the Week Archive |
January/February 2005 |
February 2005: Week of 2/28/05: The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. -Wendell Berry Week of 2/21/05: Most people fret about losing this state or that state. They get caught up in what's not present anymore. That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what's important. What always is? What is there in bliss and in misery? Who you are is always present and is always the same. That which doesn't come and go is real. That is where Freedom is found. -Adyashanti Week of 2/14/05: We Should Talk about This Problem There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. So at night I set fruit and grains And little pots of wine and milk Beside your soft earthen mounds, And I often sing. But still, my dear, You do not come out. I have fallen in love with Someone Who hides inside you. We should talk about this problem--- Otherwise, I will never leave you alone. -Hafiz From I Heard God Laughing-Renderings of Hafiz Translated by Daniel Ladinsky Week of 2/7/05: In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. -Kahlil Gibran January 2005: Week of 1/31/05: You sit here for days saying, 'This is strange business.' You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, But you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins..... You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.... -Jelaluddin Rumi from The Illuminated Rumi Week of 1/24/05: Just look, watch. What is your mind? What is meant by the word, "mind"? What exactly does it consist of? All your experiences, knowledge, the past, accumulated-- that is your mind. You may have a materialist's mind, you may have a spiritualist's mind, it doesn't matter a bit; the mind is the mind. The spiritual mind is as much a mind as the materialist mind. And we have to go beyond the mind. -Osho from Your Answers Questioned Week of 1/17/05: Sometimes it is not necessary the problem to solve. Change the angle of vision and the problem dissolves. -John C Lehman Week of 1/10/05: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint Exupery Week of 1/3/05: It Is I Who Must Begin It is I who must begin. Once I begin, once I try -- here and now, right where I am, not excusing myself by saying things would be easier elsewhere, without grand speeches and ostentatious gestures, but all the more persistently -- to live in harmony with the "voice of Being," as I understand it within myself -- as soon as I begin that, I suddenly discover, to my surprise, that I am neither the only one, nor the first, nor the most important one to have set out upon that road. Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost. -Vaclav Havel (Teaching With Fire, ed. by S.M. Intrator and M. Scribner) |
