THE LESSON WHICH LIFE
repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot." You are always nearer the divine and true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

--John Burroughs

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YOU SEE, THE PAST IS PAST
and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands-the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

--H.H. the Dalia Lama

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THE WHOLE WORLD IS YOU
yet you keep thinking there is something else.

--Hsueh-Feng

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A SHELTERED LIFE CAN BE
a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

-- Eudora Welty

-- Jim Harrison
(from 'After Ikkyu,'
TRICYCLE, Spring 1996)

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ENERGY DEVOID OF WISDOM
does not accomplish the purpose desired since itis wrongly aroused, and it is better not to arouse energy at all than to arouse it in the wrong way.
But when energy is conjoined with wisdom, there is nothing it cannot accomplish if equipped with the proper means.

-- Acariya Dhammapala
(from 'A Treatise on the Paramis, Wheel No. 409/411)

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PEOPLE PAY FOR what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

-- James Baldwin

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BETTER THAN A THOUSAND useless words is one useful word, hearing which ones attains peace.

-- The Buddha
('The Thousands' in the Dhammapada)

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