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
“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
– Jedi Master Yoda
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“When someone’s trying to interpret something for you, they always have an...”
– Penn Jillette. From http://bcove.me/z0xik0kg
July 2011
1 post
“No feeling is final.”
– Ranier Maria Rilke
June 2011
7 posts
“There’s no problem with being where you are right now….We can be...”
– Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty
“To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction...”
– Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty
“By practicing loving-kindness, compassion, and rejoicing, we are training in...”
– Pema Chodron on equanimity from Comfortable with Uncertainty.
“In this present moment I care that my thinking be the right kind of thinking,...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, THE ART OF power
“Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what’s going...”
– Pema Chodron
“Being overwhelmed is the first step if you are serious at trying to get at...”
– Liz Coleman
May 2011
3 posts
“Self respect is one of the best aphrodisiacs there is.”
– David Schnarch
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude,...”
– Charles R. Swindoll
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their...”
– Mark Twain [thank you Ushrat Sultana!] (via dichosyvida)
April 2011
2 posts
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– L. P. Jacks (via yesiac)
“…sometimes when a piece of writing, or a piece of artwork is too clever it...”
– Karen Green
March 2011
3 posts
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the...”
– Buddha
“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.”
– Ruth Gordon
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
February 2011
9 posts
“…we love our lovin - looooooooooooovin
but not like we love our freedom..”
– Join Mitchell, Help Me, Court and Spark