"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
-- Annie Dillard
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for
they are gone forever."
-- Horace Mann
Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
We lose the power of the moment because we're so rarely in it. We're
reliving the past or speculating about the future. We continue to
believe that tomorrow's the day when I'll be more capable, more wealthy,
more fit and more loving. Meanwhile, I'm just putting in time, dreaming
of better things but not making any concrete move to realize them.
When you find yourself thinking of the future or the past, bring your
awareness into the present moment. Really experience how you feel and
what's happening around you, without judgment. If we can treasure each
moment, our lives will be rich, no matter what we have accomplished.
Marcelene Cox:
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Harry S Truman:
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the
calendar, and remark, 'there goes another day of my life, never to
return,' you will become time conscious."
-- A. B. Zu Tavern
"The Realm of God is here and now" — Jesus
In Philippians (2:5ff), St. Paul writes that Jesus “emptied himself ” (Greek: kenosis), taking the form of a servant. Jesus’s many acts of service and healing did not come from a mind that was thinking and analyzing about what to do or say, but rather from a mind that had emptied itself into God. Jesus’s mind was emptied of self-reference and the centripetal force of merely personal preference. In his “emptiness,” God’s infinite love could shine through Jesus’s human form unencumbered. Through him, the invisible could become visible. In this way, the purified Christian mind is analogous to Tibetan Buddhist emptiness and to Zen’s “no-thought-ness” (Jap. munen). Visible, tangible compassion arises out of nothing, out of the emptiness that circulates in God. This spiritual emptiness is not a shallow nihilism, a nonchalant rejection of ultimate meaning, but rather a deep focused detachment of mind and heart that has been shaped within a profound ethical context Robert A. Jonas, 2006
"Remember God always, everywhere and in all situations…When you behold light, remember who gives it to you, when you see heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain, be in awe and give praise to their Creator. When you put on your clothes, remember whose gift they are and give thanks to Him who takes care of your needs.
Anonymous
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Robert A. Jonas, 2006
Friend, hope for a guest while you are alive
Jump into life while you are alive!
What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death
If you don’t break your ropes while you are alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten –
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire…
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
-- Annie Dillard
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for
they are gone forever."
-- Horace Mann
Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
We lose the power of the moment because we're so rarely in it. We're
reliving the past or speculating about the future. We continue to
believe that tomorrow's the day when I'll be more capable, more wealthy,
more fit and more loving. Meanwhile, I'm just putting in time, dreaming
of better things but not making any concrete move to realize them.
When you find yourself thinking of the future or the past, bring your
awareness into the present moment. Really experience how you feel and
what's happening around you, without judgment. If we can treasure each
moment, our lives will be rich, no matter what we have accomplished.
Marcelene Cox:
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Harry S Truman:
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the
calendar, and remark, 'there goes another day of my life, never to
return,' you will become time conscious."
-- A. B. Zu Tavern
"The Realm of God is here and now" — Jesus
In Philippians (2:5ff), St. Paul writes that Jesus “emptied himself ” (Greek: kenosis), taking the form of a servant. Jesus’s many acts of service and healing did not come from a mind that was thinking and analyzing about what to do or say, but rather from a mind that had emptied itself into God. Jesus’s mind was emptied of self-reference and the centripetal force of merely personal preference. In his “emptiness,” God’s infinite love could shine through Jesus’s human form unencumbered. Through him, the invisible could become visible. In this way, the purified Christian mind is analogous to Tibetan Buddhist emptiness and to Zen’s “no-thought-ness” (Jap. munen). Visible, tangible compassion arises out of nothing, out of the emptiness that circulates in God. This spiritual emptiness is not a shallow nihilism, a nonchalant rejection of ultimate meaning, but rather a deep focused detachment of mind and heart that has been shaped within a profound ethical context Robert A. Jonas, 2006
From "The Way of the Pilgrim" (Christian writer):
"Remember God always, everywhere and in all situations…When you behold light, remember who gives it to you, when you see heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain, be in awe and give praise to their Creator. When you put on your clothes, remember whose gift they are and give thanks to Him who takes care of your needs.
Anonymous
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Robert A. Jonas, 2006
Friend, hope for a guest while you are alive
Jump into life while you are alive!
What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death
If you don’t break your ropes while you are alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten –
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire…
-- Annie Dillard
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for
they are gone forever."
-- Horace Mann
Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
We lose the power of the moment because we're so rarely in it. We're
reliving the past or speculating about the future. We continue to
believe that tomorrow's the day when I'll be more capable, more wealthy,
more fit and more loving. Meanwhile, I'm just putting in time, dreaming
of better things but not making any concrete move to realize them.
When you find yourself thinking of the future or the past, bring your
awareness into the present moment. Really experience how you feel and
what's happening around you, without judgment. If we can treasure each
moment, our lives will be rich, no matter what we have accomplished.
Marcelene Cox:
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Harry S Truman:
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the
calendar, and remark, 'there goes another day of my life, never to
return,' you will become time conscious."
-- A. B. Zu Tavern
"The Realm of God is here and now" — Jesus
In Philippians (2:5ff), St. Paul writes that Jesus “emptied himself ” (Greek: kenosis), taking the form of a servant. Jesus’s many acts of service and healing did not come from a mind that was thinking and analyzing about what to do or say, but rather from a mind that had emptied itself into God. Jesus’s mind was emptied of self-reference and the centripetal force of merely personal preference. In his “emptiness,” God’s infinite love could shine through Jesus’s human form unencumbered. Through him, the invisible could become visible. In this way, the purified Christian mind is analogous to Tibetan Buddhist emptiness and to Zen’s “no-thought-ness” (Jap. munen). Visible, tangible compassion arises out of nothing, out of the emptiness that circulates in God. This spiritual emptiness is not a shallow nihilism, a nonchalant rejection of ultimate meaning, but rather a deep focused detachment of mind and heart that has been shaped within a profound ethical context Robert A. Jonas, 2006
"Remember God always, everywhere and in all situations…When you behold light, remember who gives it to you, when you see heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain, be in awe and give praise to their Creator. When you put on your clothes, remember whose gift they are and give thanks to Him who takes care of your needs.
Anonymous
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
A healed person is . . . a person who realizes a new personal identity as one who comes from God and is going to God. Such a person knows that he or she lives a limited, chronologically circumscribed life, and yet one also feels oneself to be standing in a place of love, blessedness, freedom and healing that is timeless. In Jesus's mind, such a person refocuses his or her life to love God and others in unselfish ways. St. Paul would call such a state of consciousness the mind of Christ--something that we already have, if we but turn to God in each moment. This much seems clear.
Robert A. Jonas, 2006
Friend, hope for a guest while you are alive
Jump into life while you are alive!
What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death
If you don’t break your ropes while you are alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten –
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire…
Kabir
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