words and pictures....
June 11, 2013
“The realization that we are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Photo: Bee Balm on Main ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012
January 31, 2012
Via His Holiness The Dalai Lama on Facebook…
“Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. When one desires to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being, then generosity – in action, word, and thought – is this desire put into practice. It is important to recognize the “generosity” here refers not just to giving in a material sense, but to generosity of the heart.”
We so often equate generosity with a monetary or material worth, but in truth a single smile, a good thought towards someone, a visit, time spent with a loved one who is ailing, all of these things are generosity in action.
July 14, 2011
“Taking nothing personally helps you to break many habits and routines that trap you in the dream of hell and cause needless suffering.” ~~ Don Miguel Ruiz -The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: A Toltec Wisdom Book
June 14, 2011
J. Krishnamurti…
For most of us, passion is employed only with regard to one thing, sex; or you suffer passionately and try to resolve that suffering. But I am using the word passion in the sense of a state of mind, a state of being, a state of your inward core, if there is such a thing, that feels very strongly, that is highly sensitive;sensitive alike to dirt, to squalor, to poverty, and to enormous riches and corruption, to the beauty of a tree, of a bird, to the flow of water, and to a pond that has the evening sky reflected upon it. To feel all this intensely, strongly, is necessary. Because without passion life becomes empty, shallow, and without much meaning. If you cannot see the beauty of a tree and love that tree, if you cannot care for it intensely, you are not living. ~~ The Book of Life
April 2, 2011
“Whatever joy there is in the world all comes from desiring others to be happy, and whatever suffering there is in the world all comes from desiring myself to be happy.” ~~ Shantideva
April 21, 2009
“Whatever joy there is in the world
All comes from desiring others to be happy,
And whatever suffering there is in the world
All comes from desiring myself to be happy.”
– Shantideva
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