#edit

Keep your heart clear And transparent, And you will Never be bound. A single disturbed thought Creates ten thousand distractions. ↗

— Ryokan

#honesty #meditation #thinking #thought #honesty

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#fate

The Way to do is to be. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#self-awareness #self-discovery #discovery

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#grammar #writing #ya #grammar

We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home. Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#meditation #spirituality #buddhism

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored. ↗

— J.F Hermann

#creativity #dimension #home #imagination #inspiration

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#love

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM. ↗

— Amit Ray

#meditation #spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#prayer #spirituality #imagination

He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable ↗

— Emma Goldrick

#funny #goldrick #harlequin-special-edition #hero #humor