2024; Index D

 Dass, Baba Ram - A00004

"The quieter you become the more you can hear."

De Botton, Alain - A00007

"Awe is everywhere, we just don't always perceive it." 

De Lamartine, Alphonse - A00026

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."

De Lint, Charles - A00027

"We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us."  (04/17/2023)

De Vries, Peter - A00028

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe."

 

Descartes, Rene - A00029

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."  (07/26,2023)

"Nothing is more ancient than the truth."

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - A00032

"At present, the outer universe -- earth, stones, mountains, rocks, and cliffs -- seem to the perception of our senses to be permanent and stable, like the house built of reinforced concrete which we think will last for generations.  In fact, there is nothing solid to it at all; it is nothing but a city of dreams."

Dillard, Annie - A00033

"The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind's muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot be dammed, and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort that might lead to madness.  Instead you must allow the muddy river to flow unheeded in the dim channels of consciousness, you raise your sights, you look along it, mildly, acknowledging its presence without interest and gazing beyond it into the realm of the real where subjects and objects act and rest purely, without utterance."  (07/04/2023)

Dogen - A00034

"To forget ego is to be illuminated by all things."

Doyle, Anita - A00035

"Before she could speak, my daughter taught me the language of silent things: fruits, flowers, an oaken chair.  I came to understand, through my relationship to this small being, why the word adult forms the root of adulteration and adultery.  Watching her, it became apparent that, as we mature, we fall from grace of the whole-seeing beginner's mind that is our birthright.  If, as Emily Dickinson says, 'What awaits us in the unfurnished eye,' then what awaits us are the senses we were born with.  She's a teenager now, but when Lila was six months old she reawakened me to the way in which an orange speaks."  (01/23/2023)

Durant, Will - A00036

"If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all."

Duse, Eleonora - A00037

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

Dzogchen Tantra - A00038

"As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere."

"Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered."  (04/13/2023)