Finding happiness
It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. – Schopenhauer
Simplicity
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Much easier to carry
You’ve traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I’ve picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they’re much easier to carry. – Hsu…
Dandelions
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: “What…
If You Want to Draw Near to God
If you want to draw near to God, seek him in the hearts of those around you. Speak well of all, present or absent. If you would be a light for others, be like the sun: show the same face to all. To bring joy to a single heart is better than building countless shrines…
The wind in the pine trees
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. – Thomas Merton
If vanities don’t hang in my mind
There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don’t hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place. – Wu Men
Keep the balance true
And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true. – Rilke
Become a child
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. – Dogen
A morning-glory satisfies me more
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman