Etsy

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.


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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Monday, December 05, 2005

Pathless Journey

You and I, it is essential that we come upon the truth for ourselves and begin to know oneself through observation and investigation of our thoughts. The understanding of the functioning of our own thought process and the traditional conditioning we have collected from our personal experiences. The convictions and conclusions limit us from really seeing things in their genuine nature as they tarnish and obstruct our vision. Through the diligent intent of discoverance of the truth, not merely for self-satisfaction, understanding (learning) blossoms. And we must be and breath in that place of inquiry. Without ever seeking.

The exalted purpose of the teacher, I identify is simply to point out that it is myself that must arrive to this truth. It is me who has to learn, and not Her who is to teach me.

Do not mistake your understanding for realization.
Unless I arrive at that truth for myself through diligent investigation it is not the truth for my self, it is only an image of the truth.

Comments on "Pathless Journey"

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (3:08 AM) : 

Beautifully put, thank you.

‘All knowing is within you’

 

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