today

Just for today,
I will not worry
I will not be angry
I will do my work honestly
I will give thanks for my many blessings
I will be kind to my neighbor
and all living things.

The Reiki Affirmation

past

The past is never fully gone. it is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do.

Sir william Deane, Governor-General of Australia

actions

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

prisoner

Care about what other people think of you and you'll always be a prisoner.

Lao Tzu

joy

Joy is not meant to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver

ignorance

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

me, you

Your perception of me is a reflection of you;
my reaction of you is an an awareness of me.

Anonymous

readjustment

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Kakuzo Okakura

chasing

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

Ai Yazawa

dreamt

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

all

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

reason

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

Ashleigh Brilliant.

love

Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Kafka and the Doll

fear

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

wonderment

...wonderment is the first passion of all.

Descartes

dangerous

The world is a dangerous place to live: not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

before

Before you speak,
Let your words pass through three gates:
Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

attributed to Lord Buddha

end

In the end, it is not darkness that dooms us, but the wrong sort of hope.

Anonymous

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

path

The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.

Seamus Heaney

right

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

dooms

In the end, it is not darkness that dooms us, but the wrong sort of hope.

Anonymous

before

Before you speak,
let your words pass through three gates:
Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

Lord Buddha

dangerous

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

obstacles

Obstacles don't block the path.
They are the path.

Zen proverb

keep

You can't keep dancing with the devil and ask why you're still in hell.

Anonymous

use

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; see in darkness.

Dejan Stojanovic

love

Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.

Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

appearance

The appearance of things change according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Kahlil Gibran

you

You can only lose what you cling to.

Lord Buddha

stop

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

Anonymous

willing

We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

living

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

essence

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

Jonathon Lockwood Huie

lose

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

still

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

jump

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Ray Bradbury

possible

It's hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Lech Walesa

memories

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find that an edge to cut you.

Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

illusions

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Wilson Watts

lose

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of Night

erase

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir, My Life

blinders

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

never

We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

beliefs

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

past

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Émile Zola, The Masterpiece

satisfaction

If anyone ask you how the perfect satisfaction of all our desires will look, lift your face and say, "like this."

Rumi

believe

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Jeanne d'Arc

clock

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

2019

Happy New Year
may 2019 be a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.