February 10th

When asked about a flag fluttering in the wind: "Was it the flag that moved or the wind?" Hui Neng answered, "Neither. It is the mind that moves." - Chinese Maxim

February 9th

"They have heard its voice and listened to it, and the river has become holy to them, as it has to me. "Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future." - Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

February 8th ( please vote for your favourite)

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."-Robert Frost_

"I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses."-Stephen King

"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity." -Adam Smith-

February 7th

When walking just walk, When sitting just sit, Above all, don't wobble. - Yunmen - Ummon (d.949)

February 6th

"Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday school. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."
- Robert Fulghum

February 5th

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same” - Nelson Mandela

February 4th

Mental sunshine will cause the flowers of peace, happiness and prosperity to-grow upon the face of the earth. Be a creator of mental sunshine.-- Kathi's Garden

Februar 3rd

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

February 2nd

"My greatest happiness consists precisely in doing nothing whatsoever that is calculated to obtain happiness" - Chuang Tzu

February 1st

"Be thine own palace".
- John Donne

January 31st

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take, she asked? Where do you want to go was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.”
- Lewis Carroll

January 30th

“Of magic doors there is this- you do not see them even as you are passing through.” John Pearson

January 29th

“May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.” Irish Blessings

January 28th

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

January 27th

"The only people who see the whole picture, are the ones who step out of the frame."— Salman Rushdie_

January 26th

“Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!” Og Mandino

January 25th

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." - Kahlil Gibran

January 24th

"Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious." - Walt Whitman

January 23rd

If you want to be happy, BE. - Leo Tolstoy

January 22nd

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943.

January 21st

If enlightenment is not where you are standing, where will you look? - Zen Saying

January 20th

“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” - Basho

January 19th

Security is not having money; it's knowing you can do without it. - re quoted from Susan Jeffers Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway who sources it to some old B grade movie.

January 18th

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound" - Zen saying

January 17th

“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.” - Chaim Potok

January 16th

A monk that was traveling to meet Nansen, met the master cutting weeds with a sickle along the road. He asked about the way to Nansen, and was shown the WAY. Not knowing it was Nansen, the monk asked, “What is the way to Nansen?” Nansen raised the sickle, saying, “I bought this sickle for thirty cents.” The monk said, “I did not ask about the sickle, I asked the way to Nansen.” Nansen answered, “I use it to full enjoyment.” - Zen Mondo

January 15th

To a real warrior, power perceived may be power achieved.-

January 14th

“It's the little things we do and say that mean so much as we go our way. One kindly deed can lift a load, from weary shoulders on the road.”
- Willa Hoey

January 13th

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” - Paulo Coelho

January 12th

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.” - Charlie Parker

January 11th

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dwyer