Transformational Truth 17:
Since time without beginning, the nature of Awakened Mind and Emptiness has consisted of the same, absolute non-duality of no birth or death, no existence or non-existence, no purity or impurity, no movement or stillness, no young or old, no inside or outside, no shape and form, no sound and color. Neither striving nor searching, one should not use intellect to understand nor words to express Awakened Mind. One should not think that it is a place or things, name or form. One should not think that it is a place or things, name or form. Only then is it realized that all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and sentient beings possess the same natural state of great Nirvana.
~ Huang Po
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
- Stephen Covey
"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."
-Mark Twain
"There is an old saying: No man is your enemy, no man if your friend, every man is your teacher."
- Horence Scovel Shin
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
Dalai Lama
"In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is power to do it."
- Marianne Williamson
Call it a clan, call it a network,
call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever
you are, you need one.
~ Jane Howard
"I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water."
- Wendell Berry
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...every moment of life is filled with choice and meaning. If we choose life over death, love over hatred, peace over war, reconciliation over hurt and acceptance over prejudice often enough and long enough, then meaning emerges and our lives are transfigured. God, I believe, is in that memory and in that transfiguration.
John Shelby Spong
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