I may or may not have tried all this. And you?
In honor of the things that we do to make us healthy
April 8th, 2012Priceless
April 1st, 2012
Be Brave Now. Not later. Now.
March 30th, 2012
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Please learn from the people who are full of doubt
February 16th, 2012
Paleo Kool-Aid
February 15th, 2012
Simple, to the point
February 11th, 2012
It all just takes a little bit of time, it appears
February 9th, 2012
All gains. Everywhere.
February 8th, 2012
The world is so kind to me. So kind to me. So very kind to me.
The world. So kind. To me.
Every day is the perfect day to practice
February 7th, 2012
External circumstances are not what draw us into suffering. Suffering is caused and permitted by an untamed mind. The appearance of self-defeating emotions in our minds leads us to faulty actions. The naturally pure mind is covered over by these emotions and troubling conceptions. The force of their deceit pushes us into faulty actions, which leads inevitably to suffering.
We need, with great awareness and care, to extinguish these problematic attitudes, the way gathering clouds dissolve back into the sphere of the sky. When our self-defeating attitudes, emotions, and conceptions cease, so will the harmful actions arising from them.
As the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa says, “When arising, arising within space itself; when dissolving, dissolving back into space.” We need to become familiar with the state of our own minds to understand how to dissolve ill-founded ideas and impulses back into the deeper sphere of reality. The sky was there before the clouds gathered, and it will be after they have gone. It is also present when the clouds seem to cover every inch of the sky we can see.(p.22)
–from How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships by H.H. the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins
(Hat Tip to Lama Surya Das for the pointer)
Little by little
February 5th, 2012
Success is failure after failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
