A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.

~Stephan Hoeller

To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem.
To meditate means to observe.
Your smile proves it.
It proves that you are being gentle with yourself,
that the sun of awareness is shining in you,
that you have control of your situation.
You are yourself,
and you have acquired some peace

~Thich Nhat Hanh

“We must remove the landmines in our hearts which prevent us from making peace. The landmines in the heart are greed, hatred and delusion. We can overcome greed with the weapon of generosity; we can overcome hatred with the weapon of loving kindness; we can overcome delusion with the weapon of wisdom. Peace-making starts with us.”
~His Holiness Maha Ghosananda

He’s always My Inspiration
His Holiness Maha Ghosananda
Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism
His whole life for Buddhism,  Khmer Nation and Peace…
A very pure and courageous Buddhist monk I have ever met…
He’s fluent in 15 languages.
He has taught me so much during this lifetime.
I will never forget his kindness.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust

Beauty is more than appearance
Beauty is love
The graceful wings of a dove
The endless imagination in a dream
Beauty is not always something that can be seen

Beauty is laughter
And the remembrance after
Beauty is hope
When you have no reason to
Beauty is he and she and me and you

Beauty is forgiving
No matter how hard
Beauty is kindness
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By hating that person, you have lost
something very sweet in yourself.
~Sri Chinmoy

Buddha taught about living with disappointment. He said that we experience everything in terms of the Eight Worldly Concerns: gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, happiness and unhappiness. We of course want gain, praise, pleasure, and happiness. But the Buddha referred to them as the “terrible twins” because each always arrives with its opposite. One cannot be open to praise and not receive blame. One cannot experience pleasure and not feel pain. This is the nature of the reality that we know.

The Buddha taught that it was the denial of this truth that is the cause of all suffering. You cling to your desire for the positive in life while being filled with aversion to the negative events that occur. Yet despite all your efforts, you don’t get many of the things you want, or they don’t continue to satisfy you, or they go away. This is the Buddha’s first noble truth: the existence of duhkha a feeling of unsatisfactoriness that accompanies every experience in which we are identified with our needs.

Disappointment has a chimerical quality because our minds refuse to accept what is; therefore, we relive the disappointment over and over again, never noticing after the initial experience that it is only a memory we are re-experiencing, much like watching old movie reruns.

Source: Dharma Wisdom

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy
or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet.
I have just one day, today,
and I’m going to be happy in it.”

~ Groucho Marx

"Always smile, you never know who could be falling in love with it"

I told the boy to smile, but he cheats
He laughs instead.
I guess I am not a good baby-sitter.
Children never listen to my instructions:))))

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Will be snowing all day here. Heavy traffics. Many accidents already. I’m surprised many schools are not cancelled. My car spinned three times already this morning – very scary.