"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
- Taoist T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien"Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. "
- American Indian"If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's Gift!), If you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, If you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, To know when you can get no further by your own action, This is the right beginning! "
- Lao Tse""Is there anything that I can do to make myself enlightened?" "As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning." "Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?" "To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise." "
- Anthony De Mello"And this, our life exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. "
- William Shakespeare"Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. "
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning"Come quickly - as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers. "
- Izumi Shikibu