2024: Index H

Hakuin

"If only you could hear the sound of snow ..."  (03/12/2023)

Hanh, Thich Nhat

"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean."

 

Heschel, Abraham Joshua

"Just to be is a blessing.  Just to live is holy."

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement ... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.  Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.  To be spiritual is to be amazed."

Hesse, Hermann

"There is no reality except the one contained within us.  That is why so many people live such an unreal life.  They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."  (06/06/2023)

Hindu Mondo

"Once a yogi sitting on the banks of the Ganges saw a scorpion fall into the water.  He scooped it out only to be bitten by the scorpion.  It happened again and again with the same result.  A bystander asked the yogi: "Why do you keep rescuing that scorpion, only to have it bite you?"

"It is the nature of scorpions to bite," replied the yogi.  "And it is the nature of yogis to help others when they can."

Hirshfield, Jane

"At Ryoan-ji in Kyoto there is a famous rock garden; wherever in it a person stands, one of the fifteen rocks cannot be seen.  The garden reminds that always something unknowable is present, just beyond what can be perceived or comprehended -- and that something is as much part of the real as any other stone amid the raked gravel."  (01/12/2023)

Hsin, Wu

"The flower is not concerned about tomorrow. 

"It does not plan.

"It does not worry about death.

"Nor does it make effort to smell beautifully.

"The flower teaches being -- Being what one is."

Huang-po

"Consider the sunlight.  You may say that it is near, yet if you pursue it from world to world you will never catch it.  You may say that it is far, yet it is right before your eyes.  Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there.  From this example you can understand how it is with true nature of all things."

Huineng

"The meaning of life is to see."