Timeless Thoughts

Anaïs Nin wrote, “In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.”

A student said to his master: “you teach me fighting, but you talk about peace. How do you reconcile the two?” The master replied: “ It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.

Possess the right thinking. Only then can one receive the gifts of strength, knowledge, and peace. Anger clouds the mind. Turned inward, it is an unconquerable enemy.

Everyone is polite. Everyone smiles and bows, but beneath that courtesy, I detect a deep reservoir of feeling.

The things we find simply beautiful are often beautifully simple, as well.