"The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- The engineer's version of the pessimist/optimist comment.

How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

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You make me smile Leisha and Shadow! Thanks!

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*facepalms* It's Spark, remember?

"What's the difference between a window and a mirror? Only what your eyes tell you." --Me

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ok, Spark, :)

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Thank you.

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"What's the difference between a window and a mirror? Only what your eyes tell you." --Me

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ----Mark Twain

Pablo Neruda

---Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man./East of Eden (1955)

---You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it: I never saved anything for the swim back. /Gattaca (1997) Guess I dig this movie :D

“Grief,” Rumi wrote, “can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

http://www.rigpaus.org/Glimpse/Glimpse.php

I will never know the bigger picture of anyone's life so it is best not to judge it.

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/197119_187498921291859_116502858391466_451672_1197754_n.jpg

Traditionally, clouds are symbolic of things indeterminate. Composed of air and water, their essential nature can be attributed to neither element but arises in an obscuring of the two, a betwixt-and-between phenomenon, not unlike human beings, those nebulous creatures who themselves seem caught between realms, floating along between the shimmering horizons of birth and death, here and there, earth and heaven. Buddhist psychology refers to the aggregate of what we call personality as “the five clouds of entanglement.”

-John P. O’Grady, "Clouding"

We can receive teachings on the nature of suffering, compassion, or emptiness, but when we sit down to practice, no one can show us how to integrate these teachings. What we end up doing with the wild and unruly character of our thoughts and emotions still remains a question for us. How we bring the practice to life is something personal, and it can't be taught. Sometimes we receive a direct transmission from a teacher or have an encounter that has an awakening affect on us. We often get excited about these small awakenings. But how we use these short passing experiences to liberate the mind from confusion presents yet another koan an open question for the practitioner.

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, "The Power of an Open Question"

God grant me the serenity not to kill every single one of these motherfuckers.

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Twirling 'round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, weaving 'round each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this
chance to be alive and breathing,
a chance to be alive and breathing.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember; we are eternal,
all this pain is an illusion.

-Tool

Kindness is possibly even when fondness is not.