"I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life."
His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (via samsaranmusing)
"I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up."
Shane Koyczan, The Student (via perfect)
(Source: buddhacoffee, via child-of-the-universe)
"The more intimate we become with other lives, the more aware we are of how those lives connect with and affect our own."
Paul Rezendes, Tracking & the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks & Sign (via cosmic-rebirth)
(via child-of-the-universe)
(Source: buddhacaksus, via samsaranmusing)
Musings by Samsaran: The Life of Plants
Let us not be fooled by the supposed stillness of plants. They are very active except in a reality of time much, much slower than ours. Watch them in time lapse photography and you will see them move and twist, avoid danger, battle one another for growing space, defend themselves against insect…
(via child-of-the-universe)
"In some sense, the word enlightenment is misleading. It is no more about the light than the dark. Resisting the shadow just makes it darker. It is not about becoming continuously blissful. It is about becoming more authentic, more genuinely here. It is about holding the light & the shadow all at once. Perhaps we should call the ultimate goal enrealment—the quest to live in all aspects of reality at once."
Jeff Brown (via venuschild)
(via child-of-the-universe)
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island (via samsaranmusing)
(Source: samsaranmusing)
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
Carl Jung (via samsaranmusing)
(via joyfulbhikkhu)
