"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

23 April 2008

Off

And I'm Off.





"
Be alert for any sign of beauty or grace. Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments, to the news that is always arriving out of silence."

"At the heart of all religions is the certainty that there is a fundamental truth, and that this life is a sacred opportunity to evolve and realize it. We often have brief glimpses of this nature of mind-a wonderful piece of music, the serene happiness brought by nature, seeing the sun rising behind a mountain, watching snow slowly drifting down."


-Sogyal Rimpoche

"The absurdity of a life that may well end before one understands it does not relieve one of the duty to live it through as bravely and as generously as possible."

-Peter Mattheisson