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Quotes by Poet
"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
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"If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that's been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother's borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities-then congratulations! You're no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living."
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"Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality."
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"No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How often already you've had to be told,Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below."I have to be gone for a season or so."
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"If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind."
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"A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust."
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"The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch."
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"Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and take care of our suffering. Suffering may be there. But with the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can embrace and take care of that suffering and nourish happiness at the same time."
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"Time ... is the life of the soul."
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"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
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"The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it."
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"There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
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"We need the vision of interbeing-we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this is the well-being of "that, so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side; there is no evil side."
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
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"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."
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"We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us."
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"No one should teach who is not in love with teaching."
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"I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."
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"The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it."
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"Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment."
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"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
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"If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering."
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