"The teacher may open the door, but you must pass through by yourself".
Chinese Proverb


"In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was, within me, an invincible summer".
Andre Breton

"PAIN IS NOT A PUNISHMENT, PLEASURE IS NOT A REWARD".
----Buddhist saying----

"there's not going to be much room for the arrogance that holding onto ideals can bring. the arroagnce that does inevitably arise is going to be continually shot down by our own courage to step forward a little further. The kinds of discoveries that are made through the practise have nothing to do with believing in anything. They have more to do with having the courage to die, the courage to die continually".
Pema Chodron

"I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes
but i was blessed with a birth
and a death
and i guess
i just want some say in between".
Ani Difranco

" The great way is not difficult for those who have no preference. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind".
Third Zen Patriarch

"A confident man is a dead man".
Krishnamurti

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives
are princesses who long to see us once
beautiful and brave.

Perhaps all the terrible things are
in their deepest sense
something that needs our love".
rainer maria rilke

"to come directly into harmony with this reality, just simply say, when doubt arises,

"NOT TWO".

In this "not two" nothing is seperate, nothing is excluded".
the Zen Patriarch


"Don't strive for perfection in a continully changing world- instead, perfect your love"