2025: Index T

 Tagore, Rabindranath

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."  (08/28/2022)

"The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail." (04/06/2024)

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

Ta-Hui

"Don't draw another's bow, don't ride another's horse, don't mind another's business."  (03/17/2024)

Taigu, Ryokan

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"But if you don't write of things deep in your own heart,

"What's the use of churning out so many words?"  (07/10/2022)

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"See and realize that this world is not permanent. Neither late nor early flowers will remain."  (12/24/2022)

Taizan Maezumi

"We do not see that our life right here, right now, is nirvana.  Maybe we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more delusions.  Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something unattainable.  We always think nirvana is something very different from our own life."

Tarrant, John

"If we forgive life for not being what we told it to be, or expected, or wished, or longed for it to be, we forgive ourselves for not being what we might have been also.  And then we can be what we are, which is boundless."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Bringing the mind to stillness is easy.  You need only pay attention to one thing.  As long as the mind is listening to the rain it is not thinking about anything else.  You don't need to try to still your mind.  You need only relax and continue listening to the rain."  (06/10/2022)

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

"If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.  That is very serious!"  (11/06/2023)

"If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything." (01/19/2022)

"Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy." (02/14/2024)

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.  Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."  (04/10/2022)

"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."  (01/01/2023)

"We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living.  We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on.  But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive."  (08/23/2022)

"We spend a lot of time looking for happiness when the world right around us is full of wonder.  To be alive and walk on the Earth is a miracle, and yet most of us are running as if there were some better place to get to."  (08/31/2023)

"You have always been here."  (07/03/2022)

"You may wonder if the most wonderful moments of your life are already behind you.  Or you may think the happiest moment of your life is still to come.  But this is the moment we have been waiting for."  (03/21/2023)

Thoreau, Henry David

"I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven 

"Than I live to Walden even, 

"I am its stony shore, 

"And the breezes that passes o'er; 

"In the hollow of my hand

"Are its water and its sand,

"And its deepest resort

"Lies high in my thought."  (05/29/2024)

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"In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here.  God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages."

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know."  (01/23/2022) (12/31/2023)

"It's not what you look at that matters.  It's what you see."

"My life has been the poem I would have writ,

But I could not both live and utter it."

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."  (12/21/2022)

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"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."  (12/04/2022)

Tilopa 

"Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing." (05/02/2024)

Tolle, Eckhart

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."  (09/03/2023) 

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant.  Let your awareness rest upon it.  How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being.  Allow nature to teach you stillness."  (05/23/2024) 

"We depend on nature not only for our physical survival.  We also need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.  We got lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating -- lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems.

"We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know.  We have forgotten how to be -- to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now." (04/11/2022)

"What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, we call a butterfly."  (10/15/2023)

"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still.  Just look and just listen.  No more is needed." (01/07/2024)

Tolstoy, Leo

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." (03/01/2024)

Treace, Bonnie Myotai

"The 90-year-old Pablo Casals, the world-famous cellist/composer/conductor, asked why he still practiced eight hours a day, said, "Because I think I'm beginning to make some progress."  (08/31/2024)

 

"The truth we are seeking is already present."  (06/22/2024)

"Zen.  It is to stop running away, turning away, denying, making things up."  (03/03/2024)

Tsunetomo, Yamamoto

"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm.  When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road.  But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet.  When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking.  This understanding extends to everything."  (04/26/2024)