May 2012
2 posts
“When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,...”
– Dale Carnegie (via artistsintheclassroom3)
“Better than a thousand words mindlessly spoken is one word of truth that helps...”
– attributed to the Buddha
April 2012
2 posts
“The idea of being human is to find one’s own infinity.”
– Yogi Bhajan (via findingmycenter)
“Authentic fearlessness arises from this connection with basic, unconditional...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear
March 2012
8 posts
“The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and...”
– Audrey Sutherland
“There’s only so much you can do. At some point they have to break their...”
– Surfer talking to a Mom about her son’s fear of the water. Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein (via artistsintheclassroom3)
“You have to develop yourself first; then you can begin to work with others. In...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“There is so little truth being told in popular culture.”
– Anne Lamott
“My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It’s not...”
– Anne Lamott
“I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.”
– Anne Lamott
“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”
– Anais Nin
February 2012
7 posts
“The reason the warrior is invincible is that he sees his oponent’s world so...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“If you are part of a partisan community, or part of any community, that has come...”
– Jonathan Haidt, Moyers & company: How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World
“We have developed our own discipline and understanding of fearlessness, but how...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear
“Not knowing the nature of your fear, you can’t go beyond it. But once you know...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“Everything reverts back to being genuine. Whenever there’s a gap, the only way...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“Genuine communication with others has to be a slow and organic process, which...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“When you are being genuine, that state of being is indestructible.”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear
January 2012
4 posts
“The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via artistsintheclassroom3)
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
– Edgar, King Lear
“If you are trying to give someone the big picture of a complex idea, to really...”
– John Bohannon (via artistsintheclassroom3)
“Unconditional fearlessness…is simply based on being awake. Once you have...”
– Chogyam Trungpa
December 2011
5 posts
“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what...”
– J. Krishnamurti
“(On the Warrior’s path) There is a complete absence of laziness. Even if what...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“When the warrior has thoroughly experienced his or her own basic rawness, there...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear (via findingmycenter)
“If a thing is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing badly.”
– G. K. Chesterton
November 2011
8 posts
“Three things make for imbalance: ignorance, hatred, and desire. Now, the fact...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear
“I am still collecting things - the ones I recognize and the ones I can’t...”
– Diane Arbus
“For a true warrior, the basic notion of victory is not one-upmanship over your...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Smile at Fear
“The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the...”
– Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
“We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we...”
– Rollo May, The Courage to Create
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein
“In life and in paper cutting everything is connected. One story leads to...”
– Béatrice Coron
“When the resistance is gone, so are the demons.”
– Pema Chodron
October 2011
6 posts
“May bodhichitta, precious and sublime,
Arise where it has not yet come to be;...”
– Shantideva
“…false starts are a part of any innovation.”
– Robert Sylwester
“The result that it will produce will necessarily be somewhat tentative. My data...”
– Gregory Schopen’s attitude toward his scholarly work. UCLA: Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– The Buddha
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and...”
– Melody Beattie
“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein
September 2011
2 posts
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
– Twyla Tharp
“Las palabras se las lleva el viento.
Actions speak louder than words.”
August 2011
8 posts
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause...”
– Mark Twain
“5.13
To cover all the earth with sheets of hide -
Where could such amounts of...”
– Pema Chodron, No Time To Loose (via findingmycenter)
“…Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your...”
– Florence and the Machine
“I went outside what I thought I knew.”
– Eve Ensler