Heaven or Hell, love or hate
No matter where I turn
I meet myself.
Holding life precious is
Just living with all intensity
Holding life precious.

- Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

The greatest gift you can give others is your best you - your healthiest you.

- Joseph J. Sweere

Be There for Breakfast

When you eat your breakfast, even if it is just a small bite early in the morning, eat in such a way that freedom is possible. While eating breakfast, don't think of the future, of what you are going to do. Your practice is to simply eat breakfast. Your breakfast is there for you; you have to be there for your breakfast. You can chew each morsel of food with joy and freedom.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Love the Bugs" - Gangaji, A Teaching Story

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

- Anatole France
novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate
(1844-1924)

Smiling and being peaceful is the most basic kind of peace work.

- Sanda Ma

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