December 30, 2009 by Bruce

"Sometimes me think, 'What is friend-' And then me think, 'Friend is what last chocolate chip cookie is for.'"
-Cookie Monster
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December 29, 2009 by Bruce

"Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. And don't forget the language of omens. And , above all, don't forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion" - Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
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December 28, 2009 by Bruce

" I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"
- Alice Walker
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December 27, 2009 by Bruce

"All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players- they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts."
- Shakespeare
Tags: Gongga Shan, inspiarational, kata, Minyak Kongka, poetic universe, quotes, shakespeare, Sichuan, Tibet, western china, whistle
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December 26, 2009 by Bruce

Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it. Viktor Frankl
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December 25, 2009 by Bruce

I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.
- The Ho'ponopono, a Traditional Hawaain mantra of reconcilliation and forgiveness.
Tags: daily quotes, forgive me, forgiveness. sorry, hawaii, healing, ho oponopono, Ho ponomo, inspirational, love, mantra Hawaiian mantra, motivational., quotes, thank you
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December 24, 2009 by Bruce
"I’ll show you how it’s enough. Go up on the roof at night in this city of the soul. let everyone climb on their roofs and sing their notes! Sing loud!" – Rumi

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December 22, 2009 by Bruce

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”Gwyneth Paltrow
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December 21, 2009 by Bruce

"Sorrows and wounds are healed when we touch them with compassion."
- Buddha
Tags: buddha, healing, medicine, tibetan, tibetan clinic
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December 20, 2009 by Bruce

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.” - George Bernard Shaw
Tags: amnye machen, amnye machen temple, calendar, daily, generations, George Bernard Shaw, gesar, gesar temple, inspirations, Monk, poetic universe, quotes, temple
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December 19, 2009 by Bruce

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, cathedrals, Exupery, inspirational quotes, Kailash, kailash pilgrimage, mountains, poetic universe, Western Tibet
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December 18, 2009 by Bruce

"Did you think I would leave you crying -When there's room on my horse for two -Climb up here Jack and don't be crying -I can go just as fast with two."
- Lyricist Edward Madden
Tags: Mongolia, Bayangkongor, two little boys, Edward Madden, Rolf Harriss, Theodore Morse, boys, horses
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December 17, 2009 by Bruce

"It is right in the midst of life that we have to develop and express all that is beautiful and perfect and divine in our souls" - Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tags: Kham Tibet, Qinghai China, the eight auspicious symbols. yak manure pile, worlds biggest manure pile
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December 16, 2009 by Bruce

"One is only poor if they choose to be. Now I know we had no money, but i was rich as I could be, in my coat of many colours, my mama made for me."
- Dolly Parton.
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December 15, 2009 by Bruce

"Every moment is a golden one for the one who has the vision to recognize it as such.” - Henry Miller
Tags: China, Sichuan, tangkor, temple first bend of the yellow river, Tibet, Tsongkhapa temple
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December 14, 2009 by Bruce

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
-Nicholas de Chamfort.
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December 13, 2009 by Bruce

"Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble which constitute them - from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow grass."
- Alexandria David-Neel
Tags: Alexandria David-Neel, China, daily calendar., inspirational, landscapes, langmussi., Mountain top, Photography, pink flower, poetic universe, poetry, quotes, rocky niche, Sichuan Tibetan China, Tibet
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December 12, 2009 by Bruce

"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender." - William Booth.
Tags: brandenseng, langmussi., mountain god, Surrendered arrows and spears, violence renounced
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December 11, 2009 by Bruce

“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life”
- Chamfort
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December 10, 2009 by Bruce

"Gate, Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bohdi Svahi / Gone, gone, all the way gone to the other shore. Hot Damn" - Brad Warner translation of the Heart Sutra
Tags: First Bend of the Yellow River, Sichuan, Tibetan China
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December 9, 2009 by Bruce

"Beyond the concepts of right and wrong there is a field. I will meet you there."
- Rumi
Tags: beyond right and wrong, husband and wife, love, Rumi, Tibet
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December 8, 2009 by Bruce

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” - Bob Dylan
Tags: Bob Dylan, Breakfast, Kailash, nomads, quotes, success, You are your own master
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December 7, 2009 by Bruce

The water does not merely purify his limbs, but it purifies his heart; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind, for its contact is more than physical contact - it is living presence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Tags: monastery, Monk, nature quote, Tagore, washing
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December 6, 2009 by Bruce

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." - Matsuo Basho
Tags: across, grasslands, Horseman, Journeying, Matsuo Basho, Tibet
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December 5, 2009 by Bruce

"Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes." -James Baldwin
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December 4, 2009 by Bruce

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tags: Lhasa, Monks debating at Sera Monastery, Tibet
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December 3, 2009 by Bruce

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." - A. A. Milne
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Tags: Father and Sons contemplating nothing in Yushu.
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December 2, 2009 by Bruce

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand- the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. -
Audrey Hepburn
Tags: arms of a deity, China, Golok, hands with eyes in them, Kham, Qinghai, Tibet
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December 1, 2009 by Bruce

"All men choose the path they walk on."
- Archie Roach.
Tags: Gāng rén bō qí fēng; Sanskrit: कैलाश पर्वत, Kailāśā Parvata, Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; simplified Chinese: 冈仁波齐峰, Nomad family on the Kailash Kora, Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ
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November 30, 2009 by Bruce

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
- Joseph Joubert
Tags: Green leaves for snacks at a Langmusi high street tea party.
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