Baba Ram Dass see Dass, Baba Ram
Bacon, Francis - A00005
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."
Baker, Nicholson - A00017
""Carpe diem" doesn't mean seize the day -- it means something gentler and more sensible. "Carpe diem" means pluck the day .... What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger. ... Pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it." (04/22/2022) (05/16/2023)
Basho, Matsuo - A00030
"All who have achieved real excellence in any art possess one thing in common, that is, a mind to obey nature, to be one with nature, throughout the four seasons of the year." (08/25/2023)
Batchelor, Martine - A00087
"Meditation helps us break free of habitual patterns and unleash the original and creative power of thought." (08/07/2022)
Baughman, Michael - A00013
"Many men fish all their lives without realizing it is not the fish they are after." (04/12/2023)
Beck, Charlotte Joko - A00014
"Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. But to talk about it is of little use. The practice has to be done by each individual. There is no substitute. We can read about it until we are a thousand years old and it won't do a thing for us. We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives." (04/06/2023)
Benedict of Nursia (Saint Benedict) - A00011
"Listen carefully to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart." [Prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict] (01/22/2023)
Bernhardt, Sarah - A00006
"Life begets life. Energy begets energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
Bhagavad Gita
"When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union." (04/05/2022)
Bistami, Bayazid - A00088
"The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it." (08/26/2022)
Blyth, Reginald Horace - A00076
"He taught me all that I don't know." [Blyth on D. T. Suzuki] (06/30/2022)
"Zen itself is beyond the contrivance of form and no-form, of contrivance and no-contrivance, of "square" and "beat." The real task is to achieve union with life, for only in this way is life transformed from a formality to a reality." (04/30/2022)
Bohr, Niels - A00077
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (04/19/2022)
Borges, Jorge Luis - A00082
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment -- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all who he is." (05/13/2022)
Botton, Alain de - A00007
"Awe is everywhere, we just don't always perceive it."
Brach, Tara - A00018
"There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying Yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. With even a glimmer of that possibility, joy rushes in." (04/22/2023)
"Whatever you most care about, let this tenderness of heart energize your meditation. The sincerity of your longing will carry you home." (07/04/2022)
Branson, Richard - A00008
"Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop."
Brown, Brene - A00085
"Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are." (07/01/2022)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - A00060
"Earth's crammed with heaven,
"And every common bush afire with God." (12/12/2023)
Buddha, The - A00009
"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise."
"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth." (06/03/2023)
"Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- in that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide." (06/07/2023)
"Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is nowhere else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There's nowhere to go. There's nothing else to be. There's no destination. It's not something to aim for in the afterlife. It's simply the quality of this moment." (02/01/2022)
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
Buddhist Chant - A00009
"All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness."
Buddhist Saying - A00009
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." [Tibetan Buddhist Saying] (01/05/2023)
Burroughs, John - A00083
"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is, "Look under foot." You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think .... Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world." (05/02/2022)
Byron, George Gordon (Lord Byron) - A00078
"And yet 't is very puzzling on the brink
"Of what is call'd Eternity to stare,
"And know no more of what is here, than
"there ..." (04/29/2022)
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