skill

...it is compassion that is yet another skillful method to undermine ego-fixation.

-Machik's Complete Explanation

pale

ideal

We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.

-President Barack Obama

orange tree

circa 1992 - 2nd Station

death

The fruit of frequent and deep reflection on death will be that you will find yourself emerging, often with a sense of disgust, from your habitual patterns. You will find yourself increasingly ready to let go of them, and in the end you will be able to free yourself from them as smoothly, the masters say, “as drawing a hair from a slab of butter.”

-Glimpse of the Day

remembering Malcolm

Inauguraton Day

palm

from the archives

one

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

-Bede Griffiths

doorway

from the archives

1989

archives here

promised

I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(address in Memphis the night before Dr. King's assassination)

wall

living

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

-Emily Dickinson

obligation

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy. Walk humbly. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

The Talmud

solutions

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

-Albert Einstein