The Human Experience

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today, give something, anything, with all your heart. 

The remarkable thing is that we really do love our neighbor as ourselves. We do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. -Eric Hoffer

Today, consider how love, tolerance, and forgiveness for yourself would change your relationship with the world.

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday, far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Today, make a list of the questions you have already lived into the answers for. Notice if the answers have created more questions.

At 20 we worry about what others think of us; at 40, we don’t care what they think of us; at 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.
Bob Hope

Today, be you as if no is watching.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. -Albert Einstein

The voices of conditioning mind would have you hear the same stories and rehash the same problems endlessly, not because this leads to a solution but because it produces suffering.

Today, let yourself have some time-out from habitual conversations about problems and be open to the new level of awareness that can solve the problems.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. - Virgil

Today, sing with every step. Have a great day everyone!

You yourselves must make the exertion. The Buddhas are only teachers. - The Buddha

Today, remind yourself that no matter how many maps you read, you must make the journey. Remind yourself often that you are equal to the task.

Everyone is in the best seat. - John Cage

Today, remember that now is the best time and here is the best place for you to wake up and end suffering.

And with this in mind:

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. - Harry Truman

Today, be like a child, joyful in discovering a new world you know nothing about.

Spread kindness and joyfulness. Be present, compassionate and loving. With one step at a time we can create a world with less suffering.

“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”-Alan Watts

Today, practice “just peeling the potatoes” in whatever you’re doing.