Sunday

"The smallest package in the world is a person all wrapped up in the self."

- William Sloan Coffin

Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

~ Shams Tabrizi Art: Irina Vitalievna Karkabi

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ~ 

Dalai Lama

"Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do."

~Ancient Egyptian, The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (original dates to 1970 to 1640 BCE and may be the earliest version ever written)

 "'Kindness' covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try." -

-Roger Ebert (18 June 1942 – 4 April 2013) 

American film critic, journalist and screenwriter.

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.”

-Aldous Huxley

Mysteries, Yes

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous

to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the

mouths of the lambs.

How rivers and stones are forever

in allegiance with gravity

while we ourselves dream of rising.

How two hands touch and the bonds will

never be broken.

How people come, from delight or the

scars of damage,

to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those

who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say

Look! and laugh in astonishment,

and bow their heads.

Mary Oliver