Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Julie Hill Alger

LESSON l

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At least I've learned this much

Life doesn't have to be

All poetry and roses Life

can be bus rides, gritty sidewalks,

electric bills, dishwashing,

chapped lips, dull stubby pencils,

with erasers chewed off,

cheap radios played too loud,

the rank smell of stale coffee,

yet still glow

with the inner fire of an opal,

still taste like honey.

Anonymous

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way

is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul

Hippocrates

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.

Shunryu Suzuki

Without accepting the fact that everything changes,

we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately,

although it is true, it is difficult to accept it. Because

we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes an incredibe

stroke of luck.

Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;

if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which

is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by

experience, which is the bitterest.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best

ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it.

That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

Micheal McClure

Despite fascination

Do not be concerned

that form is emptiness

and emptiness is form,

IT

IS

ALL

a brown

falling leaf

no different from

anything

else.

Nelson Henderson

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

Otani Kubutsu

Gazing at falling petals

a baby almost

looks like a Buddha

Thomas Merton

Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious

of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at

best an imposter and a stranger.

Alfred Adler

War is not the continuation of politics with different means,

it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community

of man.

Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I walk under but

large and melodious thoughts descend

upon me?

The Imperial Advisor Yokamochi

When on the Magpies' Bridge I see,

The Hoar-frost King has cast

His sparkling mantle, well I know

The night is nearly past,

Daylight approaches fast.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

I saw the lovely arch

of rainbow span the sky.

The gold sun burning

As the rain swept by.

Middle Counselor Yikihira

Although I depart

For where Mount Inaba stands,

Its peak covered with pines,

Should I hear that you too pine,

I am sure at once to return.

Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practise compassion.

If you want to be happy, practise compassion.

Ryokan

The thief

Left it behind-

The moon in the window

John Dewey

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is,

not a preperation for life; education is life itself.

Wayne Dyer

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long

pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have

and where and who you are.

Japanese Proverb

When considered as my own, lightly weighs the snow

of my bamboo-hat.

John McAfee

Anyone can find peace in a cave, but bringing that peace into

the chaos of the world is an issue. And it is necessary to find

that peace within the world in order to know the true self,

in order to know your true relationship with the world..