Contradiction and Reconciliation

Every contradiction is a reconciliation.
We live in time while abiding in eternity.
Happy are they who surrender to Being.  

One Step in Mindfulness

"Taking even one step in mindfulness
can benefit all beings on Earth."
                        -- Thich Nhat Hanh

Begin Again

Could I begin again, 

as if this is the first day?

Could God the Omnipotent

redo the creation -

and again say

"Let there be light"?

Image: http://genius.com/1564343/Isaac-asimov-the-last-question-part-vii/And-ac-said-let-there-be-light-and-there-was-light 

The Whole Thing

Each of the sentences I write is trying to say the whole thing, i.e., the same thing over and over again; it is as though they were all simply views of one object seen from different angles.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
Translated by Peter Winch

Life Is Uncertain

We really don't know much
life is uncertain, to assume anything else
is the epitome of stupidity

  

Kahlil Gibran - Beauty

Be In Wonder

be in wonder

like a child again

embrace life

Embrace Life

Start your day in wonder

be like a child again

embrace life

There There

There's no 

there there

only

here here

~ americ

A flower grows...

A flower grows between sidewalk cracks
A smile shines between tears
A life unfolds between birth and death

Ocean of Stillness

Be 

an 

ocean 

of 

stillness 

within 

the 

world

No way out

No way out
Always here
Even in dreams

Fissures

Lapses in judgment create spaces to fill with compassion

Online Imperfection

We spend too 

much time working out

perfect metheds  methods (!)

of online communication.

                                  I say - honor the

                                  imperfections - here

                                  is the human touch.
One had  handwritten letter

is worth 100 printed  

store bought cards.

Editors note: Written back in 2006.  While still using Windows ME!

Truth and Freedom

Tell me. How do we live the
truth?

It's been said and
written: the truth shall make
you free. But, to know the
truth that makes you free is
to live, to embody the truth.
I believe that we must strip away
one illusion after another.
So that we are not distorting
reality. We must learn what's
below our senses; learning
how our emotions and
special personal interests color
our responses to reality.
To know both what we can
and cannot change.
To live with our
shadow, shades of gray,
and the light -- all at once.

Late aging

Late aging is a slow bit by bit death; nature's way of giving us time to adjust to the inevitable.

Don't talk

Be quite. Don't talk. Walk around, being with people while not talking. You'll be in your life, not in your head lost in words. A gift you become to all around.

Slow Journey

A slow journey is the fastest way to the present.

Stall wall writing in Physics Department restroom

A stall wall aphorism found in the Physics Department men's restroom. Good metaphysics!

You are the world

The world comes into existence when you awake and goes out of existence when you sleep. You are the world!

During sleep you live in a world of dreams, and sometimes utter quiet. Of these two states, the dream world is most like waking life. The quiet state is most like the condition of total enlightenment - which is beyond the world altogether. Is not life itself, when recalled (as memories) like a dream? A dreamer sometimes realizes they are in a dream, and thereby breaks the power of the dream.