The first of this year’s monthly round-up of quotes amusing and/or thought-provoking.
When you meet one little being, it might be a mosquito, or pine tree, or rock, to become Buddha with each of them is your practice. Do you understand? You become Buddha with each of them … This is communicating with a being that appeared for you, to make sure you are enlightened! It is also enlightened. This is how everything is actually happening. Sometimes neither one knows what is going on. Sometimes both completely know what is going on.
[Kobun Chino Roshi]
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful for her ability
to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
[F Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby]
youth
today i am the youngest
i will ever be again
younger than each lick of sea
each lash of wave on beach
each pebble skimming stream
each kiss of falling rain
today i am the youngest
i will ever be again
tomorrow
and the next day
– the same
[Hollie McNish]
When you’re a kid you don’t realise you’re also watching your parents grow up.
[source unknown]
I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
[Terry Pratchett]
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
[Terry Pratchett]
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
[AJ Liebling]