Myq Kaplan

True story from Gus:

Great Tibetan practitioners, when they die, they stay in meditation for days or even weeks after their breath stops. (This is a common thing, not, like, a legend.) They stay sitting erect and their body emits a pleasant smell. Then the moment their meditation is done, the most subtle mind leaves the body, and immediately the bo

Author John Shedd on taking risks: "A ship is safe in a harbor, but that is not what ships are built for."

with times changing... "what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think"

ursula k le guin

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

Caged Bird BY MAYA ANGELOU

A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind   

and floats downstream   

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and   

his feet are tie

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.

https://adultchildren.org/literature/aca-serenity-prayer/

A Buddhist saying on the ineffectiveness of anger: "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else — you are the one who gets burned."