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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

I Do Not Know

Relentlessly searching. What is it that we are seeking? Is it really clarity or the mastery of the mind? Is this perpetual search not just a instrument of escape from ourselves? A gratifying, agreeable, convenient sanctuary.

I do not know.

Such humble words to embrace. The mind cannot be capable of saying, “I do not know” while it is in a state of comparison, as it is just bare recognition. Only in a state in which the mind is free from text books and quotations and religions can anything be discovered. The one who says, “I know”, can he ever experience something which is not accumulated? The mind must put aside all knowledge that it has acquired, completely alone, all movement come to an end. Only then can the mind say, “I do not know”.

posted by I Am This at 11:36 PM

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