“So I’m thinking that bliss is ever present inside all of us. It is neither caused by a sunset or by a song or by a god. The sunset and the song and the god merely reveal the bliss that was there all along. Nothing external produces bliss inside…nothing. They only reveal, temporarily, what is […]
“When afflicted with a feeling of pain those who lack inner awareness sorrow, grieve and lament, beating their breasts and becoming distraught. So they feel two pains, physical and mental. It is just like being shot with an arrow, and right afterwards being shot with a second one, so that they feel two arrows.” Siddhārtha […]
There was a young man of Japan, Whose limericks never would scan. When they asked him, Why? He said, with a sigh, “It’s because I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can.”
“No matter what kind of problem you are dealing with, one needs to make an effort to change things – the problem will not fix itself. A person needs to have a strong determination to change the problem. This determination comes from your conviction that the problem is serious, and it has serious consequences. And […]
“I kept [your dreams] with me babe. I put them with my own. Can’t make it on my own. I built my dreams around you.” The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl To my wife.
“Solidarity is the integration, and degree and type of integration, shown by a society or group with people and their neighbours. It refers to the ties in a society – social relations – that bind people to one another.” Wikipedia