“Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit. The deepest happiness you can have comes from that capacity to help relieve the suffering of others. So if we have the habit of being peace, then there is a natural tendency for us to go in the direction of service. Nothing compels us, except the joy of sharing peace, the joy of sharing freedom from afflictions, freedom from worries, freedom from craving, which are the true foundations for happiness."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. The Bhagavad Gita
Monday, August 30, 2010
Weekly Reading
It is I who must love myself. No one else can make me feel
whole. Only I can provide that love.Now I know that whole-
ness is always accessible to me and all beings everywhere.
This knowingallows me to live with a new peacefulness and
kindness to myself and others. In the simplest way, it has
changed my whole life.
-- After the Ecstacy, The Laundry
whole. Only I can provide that love.Now I know that whole-
ness is always accessible to me and all beings everywhere.
This knowingallows me to live with a new peacefulness and
kindness to myself and others. In the simplest way, it has
changed my whole life.
-- After the Ecstacy, The Laundry
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Weekly Reading
“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing ... Silence ... Waves. Nothing happens? Or Has everything Happened and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?”
~Juan Ramon Jimenez
~Juan Ramon Jimenez
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