Benjamin Zander

A wonderful video by a really inspiring, delightful man!

http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/?viewcastid=211

Elizabeth Gilbert on TED

A wonderful talk by Elizabeth Gilbert....

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

I Wasn't Looking

I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different
drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the
different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel
I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace.
But luckily grace was looking for me.

- Bono, lead singer of U2

Inner Fire

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

– Albert Schweitzer

To Live in this World

To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

– Mary Oliver

All that Anybody Should Need

The root of the matter is a very simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing so simple that I am almost ashamed to mention it for fear of the derisive smile with which cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean – please forgive me for mentioning it – is love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a reason for courage, a guide to action, an imperative necessary for intellectual honesty. If you feel this, you have all that anybody should need in the way of religion.

~ Bertrand Russell

Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

The ordinary objects of human endeavor – property, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. Such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Every Moment a Golden One

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

~ Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Find Eternity

Nothing can be postponed.
Find eternity in each moment.

- Henry David Thoreau

Happiest Days

As life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,
then for the teeming, quietest, happiest days of all!

- Walt Whitman

Freedom

A few years more or less matters little when set against the freedom and peace of mind one achieves the moment one stops running away from death.

- Simone de Beauvoir

Every Moment

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Life is now, every moment, no mater if the world be full of death.

- Henry Miller

Not the Ending

I feel and know that death is not the ending, as we thought, but rather the real beginning - and that nothing ever is or can be lost, nor even die, nor soul, nor matter.

- Walt Whitman

From Eternity to Eternity

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature. It works from eternity to eternity.

- Goethe

Death is Natural

All that nature has prescribed must be good;
and as Death is natural to us, it is absurd
to fear it.

- Sir Richard Steele, 1709

Autumn Leaf

What a simple thing death is,

just as simple as the falling

of an autumn leaf.

- Vicent van Gogh

True and Best Friend

Death is the true and best friend of humanity...
the key which unlocks the door to our true
state of happiness.

- Mozart

By Thy Grace

By Thy Grace ~ Santan Kaur

It is by Thy Grace that I sing Your Holy Name.
It is by Thy Grace that I feel Your Holy Name.

One day the day shall come when all the glory shall be Thine.
People will say it is yours, and I shall deny, not mine.

Allah
Jehovah
Rama
Sa Ta Na Ma

Peace to all, Life to all, Love to all.

2 Questions

2 Questions:

Did you find joy?
Did you bring joy?

- Ancient Egyptians

To Be Understood

I know that I am august.

I do not trouble my spirit

to vindicate itself

or to be understood.

- Walt Whitman