2024: Index A

Adyashanti - A00010

"The still and quiet voice of truth presents itself without argument."  (01/06/2022)

"True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced.  And as such, it lets go of itself.  We don't even let go.  It lets go of itself."  (04/13/2022)

"When you rest in questions and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left?  A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are."  (02/21/2023)

Ajahn Brahm - A00081

"Don't try to change life, but change the way you look at it.  Make peace with this moment, be kind and be gentle to yourself."  (05/23/2022)

Ajahn Chah - A00001

"Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher."  (08/24/2022)

"You are your own teacher.  Looking for teachers, can't solve your own doubts.  Investigate yourself to find the truth -- inside, not outside.  Knowing yourself is most important."

 Ajahn Sumedho - A00002

"Yesterday is a memory

Tomorrow is the unknown 

Now is the knowing."

Ali ibn Abi Talib - A00059

"Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."  (02/27/2022) (12/16/2023)

"I have never seen a thing except to have seen God before it." (Encyclopedia Britannica)

"If the veils were to be removed from the mysteries of the world, it would not add to my certitude." (Encyclopedia Britannica)

"Look at what is said and not at who has said it." (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Alvarez, Julia - A00015

"For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk.  It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in.  "My heart keeps open house," was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem.  And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world."  (05/12/2023)

Anandamurti, Shri Shri - A00016

"You are never alone or hopeless.  The force that guides the stars guides you, too."  (05/27/2023)

 

Aurelius, Marcus - A00003

"Dwell on the beauty of life.  Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

"He who sees what is now has seen all things, whatsoever comes to pass from everlasting and whatsoever shall be unto everlasting time."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.  The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."  (06/12/2022)

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..." (04/23/2023)