Apiarian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee,

advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

I think probably kindness is my number

one attribute in a human being.

I’ll put it before any of the things like courage, or bravery,

or generosity, or anything else…

Kindness—that simple word.

To be kind—it covers everything, to my mind.

If you’re kind that’s it.”

~Roald Dahl

"Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads.

It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out."

~Malcolm Gladwell (b.1963)

"In Asian languages, the word for mind

and the word for heart are same.

So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way

as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it.

Compassion and kindness towards oneself

are intrinsically woven into it.

You could think of mindfulness as wise

and affectionate attention."

~Jon Kabat-Zinn (b.1944)

We ask the leaf, 'Are you complete in yourself?'

And the leaf answers, 'No, my life is in the branches.'

We ask the branch, and the branch answers,

'No my life is in the root.' We ask the root, and it answers,

'No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves.

Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die,'

So it is with the great tree of being.

Nothing is completely and merely individual."

~Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)

"To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides,

to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh,

to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up

and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years,

to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea,

is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal

as any earthly life can be."

~Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

“Compassion is the keen awareness

of the interdependence of all things.”

Thomas Merton

"When you come to see you are not as wise today

as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today."

~Anthony de Mello (1931-1987)

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only

when we touch them with compassion.”

Jack Kornfield