Do everything with a mind that lets go.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace.
If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom. Your struggles with the world will have come to an end
.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should
find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm
all hostility.
~ Longfellow

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...
Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those
things and make them bloom? "
~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like
dew on the tip of a leaf. "
~Rabindranath Tagore

Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental',
'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or
convenience was at stake. -Joan Gilbert (1931- )

"Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night". -Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer
(1809-1849)


"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and
love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time
they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it,
always". -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

When the pupil is ready , the master will appear"

"Even for our enemies in misery--there should be tears in our eyes". -
Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

"When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave
becomes his master, since he cannot live without him". -George Bernard,
writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)-

"What you are is what you have been,
and what you will be is what you do now"
Buddhist Quote.

Even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
--Gillian Rose

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect
good. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

In some of my dreams I love with one hand and I fight with the other.  In
some of my other dreams, I love with both hands, and the fighting is over.
Unknown author

Light cannot enter darkness when a mind believes in darkness, and will not
let go. Truth does not struggle against ignorance and love does not attack
fear. What needs no protection does not defend itself
...   Unknown author

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable
to sit still in a room. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician
(1623-1662)
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