Quotes 💗

As the Buddha is said to have explained to a disciple:

“You are one of those gems, and every person, every animal, every tree and plant, every insect, every speck of dust that floats up into a sunbeam and down onto a road, is a gem of the net of Indra. Every emotion that you feel, and all the feelings that all beings have ever felt, even thousands

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

– Joyce Carol Oates

“As someone looks up at the night sky, they hold the stars in their eyes. Whatever is shared between shining pupils and stellar flames is a reflective dialogue, exemplifying the interrelatedness of the cosmos.”

~ author Rachel Capurso, Submission for The American Academy of Religion, March 2014

Love this from Yancey Strickler:

An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.

A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. - Henry David Thoreau

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar

We have not built a human-needs-first society; we have built a business-needs-first society, and it is starting to show.

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others

   (do not forget the pigeon’s food).

As you conduct your wars, think of others

   (do not forget those who seek peace).

As you pay your water bill, think of others

   (those who are nursed by clouds).

As you return home, to your home, think of others

   (do not forget the people of the camps).

As you sleep