released

...slowly released from attachment,
a great compassion is released in us

www.rigpa.org

pelt

@ MOMA

wisdom

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

-Marcel Proust

MOMA detail

Picasso

a classic

all calls

The Infinite understands all languages and answers, and in some way, all calls.

- Kabir Helminski from Goop

NYC nights

forgotten

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

-Mother Teresa

people

Union Square, NYC

blessings

The more alert we become to the blessing that flows into us through everything we touch, the more our own touch will bring blessing.

-David Steindl-Rast

bike

14th Street

at the corner

heaven and earth

Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.

-Shaker proverb

key

longing

Imagine living in your head, untrue to your heart.
Imagine the pain of separation.
Imagine the depth of the longing for peace.

-G Carol

NYC

rebirth

After all, it is no more surprising to be born twice than it is to be born once.

-Voltaire

NYC

NYC

fire

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

-Teilhard de Chardin

another alley

gain

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

- the Dalai Lama

windows and doors

window

path of the heart

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind. And the path beyond the ordinary mind, all the great wisdom traditions have told us, is through the heart. This path of the heart is devotion.

a glimpse

scissors

now, never, always

It's now or never, as always.

-Lama Surya Das

glass

washed away

Listening is a far more difficult process than most people imagine. Really to listen in the way that is meant by the masters is to let go utterly of ourselves, to let go of all the information, all the concepts, all the ideas, and all the prejudices that our heads are stuffed with. If you really listen to the teachings, those concepts, which are our real hindrance—the one thing that stands between us and our true nature—can slowly and steadily be washed away.

a glimpse

@ the fair

posing

opportunities

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

-author unknown

tent

listening

Listening is a far more difficult process than most people imagine. Really to listen in the way that is meant by the masters is to let go utterly of ourselves, to let go of all the information, all the concepts, all the ideas, and all the prejudices that our heads are stuffed with. If you really listen to the teachings, those concepts, which are our real hindrance—the one thing that stands between us and our true nature—can slowly and steadily be washed away.

-a glimpse

heliobores 2

consciousness

Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.

-Mira Alfassa (The Mother)