2024: Index D

 Daito see Kokushi, Daito

Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism - A00064

"My religion is kindness."  (01/17/2022)

Dass, Baba Ram - A00004

"As long as you have certain desires about how you think it ought to be, you can't hear how it is."  (10/10/2022)

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"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation.  

"Use it!"  (08/20/2022)

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"Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days.  Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future.  There is only here and now.  Let it be."  (04/03/2022) (11/09/2023)

"I would like my life to be as statement of love and compassion -- and where it isn't where my work lies."  (03/16/2022)

"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 Montaigne, Michel see Montaigne, Michel de

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." (05/22/2022)

 

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."

"There is nothing more ancient than the truth." (11/19/2022)

Dickinson, Emily - A00065

"Forever -- is composed of Nows --" (01/02/2022)

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

"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment."  (08/13/2022)

"Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world.  Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment."  (11/01/2023)

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"That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion;

"That the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment."  (07/05/2022)

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"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)

Duchamp, Marcel - A00090

"It's not what you see that is art, art is the gap."  (07/25/2022)

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.  Like a madman beyond all limits, go where you please, and live like a lion completely free of all fear." (05/11/2022) (04/13/2023)