"Compassion is a true source of happiness."
Dalai Lama
"It is a cold and snowy night.
The main street is deserted.
The only things moving are swirls of snow.
As I lift the mailbox door I feel its cold iron.
There is a privacy I love in this snowy night.
Driving around I will waste more time."
Robert Bly, from “Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter”
"Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!"
William Blake
"Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words."
Margaret Atwood
- Caine: Master, what is the best way to meet the loss of one we love?
- Master: By knowing that when we truly love it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the loss is truly felt and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life.
- Caine: Are we only able to feel this towards those whom we have known and loved for a long time?
- Master: Sometimes a stranger known to us for moments can spark our souls to kinship for eternity.
- Caine: How can strangers take on such much importance to our souls?
- Master: Because our soul does not keep time. It merely records growth.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
G. K. Chesterton
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
J Krishnamurti
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
J Krishnamurti
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Kahlil Gibran
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."
Wayne Dyer
"The arc of the universe bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."
John Rawls
"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."
Vida D. Scudder
- Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
- Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
- Master Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
- Caine: No.
- Master Po: Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet?
- Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
- Master Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?
