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[Cleo_Serapis]

"The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
- Oscar Wilde

"The pebble is the perfect creature, equal to itself, mindful of its limits."
- Zbigniew Herbert

"What we play is life."
- Louis Armstrong

"The sage himself never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved."
- Lao-Tzu

"What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer."
- Henry David Thoreau

"....And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
- William Wordsworth

"No words can describe it
No example can point to it
Samsara does not make it worse
Nirvana does not make it better
It has never been born
It has never ceased
It has never been deluded
It has never existed
It has never been nonexistent"
-Dudjon Rinpoche, on AWARENESS

"A man is known by the silence he keeps."
-Oliver Herford

"All wisdom can be stated in two lines:
What is done for you - allow it to be done.
What you must do yourself - make sure you do it."
-Khawwas

"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."
-Henry Miller

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
-Confucius

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
-Medgar Evers

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Edison

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson

"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

"This above {all;} to thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare

[Blank_Canvas]

"...Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud-
We in ourselves rejoice !
And thence flows all that charms our ear or sight,
All melodies the echoes of that voice,
All colors a suffusion from that light..."
        ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~


"...Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime,
even under the most unpromising circumstances,
even in the midst of suffering, with tears in it's eyes..."
                   ~ Frederick Buechner ~


"...here is a simple revelation that is bringing me a lot of freedom:
There is enough time...I am discovering that I have exactly the right number of hours and minutes and seconds to accomplish and do everything that I need to do in my lifetime..."
                    ~ Claire Cloninger ~


"...Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance it..."
                        ~ Rubem A. Alves ~



A Tear
"...O' that the chemist's magic art
Could crystallize this sacred treasure !
Long should it glitter near my heart,
A secret source of pensive pleasure..."
            ~ Samuel Rogers ~


"...In our language we have two words
           Solitude and Lonliness
Solitude is being alone
Without thinking about being alone
While lonliness is being alone
And being aware that you're alone..."
            ~ Javan (from the book, Meet Me Halfway) ~


"... We are born into this World
Like a blank canvas
And every person that crosses our path
Takes up the brush
And makes their mark
Upon our surface

So it is that we develop

But we must realize there comes a day
That we must take up the brush
And finish the work
For only we can determine
If we are to be
Just another painting
Or a masterpiece..."
             ~ Javan ( from the book, Meet Me Halfway) ~


"... From time to time
Through the years
The world has brought me down
To teach me about pain
And has filled my eyes with tears
But there came a day
That I started to understand
That it is not about pain
That the World is trying to teach me
But rather about Life
And the not so simple act
Of Being Human..."
         ~ Javan (from the book, A Heart Full of Love) ~