Even
After
all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe
Me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that.
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

            ~Hafiz

Knowing ignorance is strength
Ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Only when we are sick of our sickness
shall we cease to be sick.
The sage is not sick but is sick of sickness;
this is the secret of health

                                        ~Tao Te Ching
                                      71st verse
                                   Lao-Tzu

A man is born gentle and weak;
at his death he is hard and stiff.
All things, including the grass and trees,
are soft and pliable in life;
dry and brittle in death.

Stiffness is thus a companion of death
flexibility a companion of life.
An army that cannot yield
will be defeated.
A tree that cannot bend
will crack in the wind.

The hard and stiff will be broken;
the soft and supple will prevail.

                                              ~Tao Te Ching
                                            76th Verse
                                      Lao-Tzu

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful
or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is
not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing,
but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

~1st Corinthians 13: 4-7
   St. Paul 

The sage has no fixed mind;
he is aware of the needs of others.

Those who are good he treats with goodness.
Those who are bad he also treats with goodness
because the nature of his being is good.

He is kind to the kind.
He is also kind to the unkind
because the nature of his being is kindness.

He is faithful to the faithful;
he is also faithful to the unfaithful.
The sage lives in harmony with all below heaven.
He sees everything as his own self;
he loves everyone as his own child.

All people are drawn to him.
He behaves like a little child.

                                                 Tao Te Ching
                                           49th Verse
                                     Lao-Tzu

Between birth and death,
three in ten are followers of life;
three in ten are followers of death.
and men just passing from birth to death
also number three in ten.

Why is this so?
because they clutch to life
and cling to this passing world

But there is one out of ten, they say, so sure of life
that tigers and wild bulls keep clear.
Weapons turn from hin on the battlefield,
rhinoceroses have no place to horn him,
tigers find no place for claws,
and soldiers have no place to thrust their blades.

Why is this so?
Because he dwells in that place
where death cannot enter.

Realize your essence
and you will witness the end without ending.

                                                       Tao Te Ching
                                                  50th Verse
                                             Lao-Tzu

Be outrageous. It's the only place that isn't crowded.
~Anonymous

Develop your own manner of living life on the edge; on your terms.
~Anonymous

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,nor do the children of man, as a whole, experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer, in the long run, than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller

All men die. Some never live.
~William Wallace

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
~Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.

Block all the passages!
Close your mouth,
cordon off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is primal union or the secret embrace.

One who knows this secret
is not moved by attachment or aversion,
swayed by profit or loss,
nor touched by honor or disgrace.
He is far beyond the cares of men,
yet comes to hold the dearest place in their hearts.

This, therefore, is the highest stated of man.

                                                            Tao Te Ching
                                                      56th verse
                                                 Lao-Tzu