Quotes

"Know your own mind just as it is" ~ Ryokan

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” - Rolf Potts

“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus

Author Mary H.K. Choi on the importance of not waiting: "It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early."

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh