A Minefield of Memes for the Mindful

 The Quality of Intent:

 
 

There is never a need to explain what's made a person who they are (meaning what they've done), unless the need has been another's or their own, in which case it is not really a need, but a self-centered desire to either know or make known. Live conscionably and unapologetically. That is my understanding. ~ A.O.




 

"If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting."

 

"The importance is in forgetting scheduled time, and being more in rhythm with what surrounds you."

 

"When you compare yourself to others, you’re comparing your inside to their outside."

Term of the Day: 'Quandary'  >>

"We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured."

Student: "I am very discouraged.

What should I do?"
Master : "Encourage others."
(Even despair serves a purpose)

Before you speak ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve upon the silence?

 

My 4-22-2012 post:

Don't know what I want to do...not sure what I'm supposed to do.

My 4-23-2012 post: 

(After having stumbled upon this image) I guess I'm already doing it. :)

<< Women are...

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

"It does not take a great person to do great things; it simply takes an ordinary person to do things in a extraordinary fashion."

 

"What we think, 

we become."

सिद्धार्थ गौतम

  

"You are only as sick as your secrets."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

 

 

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

 

What lies beyond the intellect?

"Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?"

As individuals, you might say that we are cells within a unified self. One healthy cell contributes to a healthier whole. Each of us is a brushstroke on the canvas of Life's masterpiece. Although seemingly insignificant, we are infinitely important! ~ A.O.