whispering grass
Wednesday
For just two years this site fulfilled its promise to show that faith and belief and life style can be one and the same thing. That no religon is right and that no religon is wrong. We all can use and share the wisdom of so many notable people from so many different faiths and use that shared wisdom to better benefit ourselves and the people we live with.
Love. Peace. God. Tao. Mankind. All one and the same thing.
Sunday
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
Confucius
“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
Alan Watts
“Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.”
Shunryu Suzuki
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Morihei Ueshiba
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Albert Camus
"It is not how much you do, but how
much love you put in the doing."
"Heaven and earth are like a set of bellows.
Although empty, they are endlessly productive.
The more you work them, the more they produce.
The mouth, on the other hand, becomes exhausted if you talk too much.
Better to keep your thoughts inside you."
Lao Tzu
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'universe', a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest
- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affectation for a few people near us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
"Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same."
Native American (Crow)Saying
"Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer."
Morihei Ueshiba
If only you do not pick and choose.
Neither love nor hate,
And you will clearly understand.
Be off by a hair,
And you are as far apart as heaven from earth."
Master Sheng Yen
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
Socrates
Martin Luther King junior
Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba
Confucius
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Tecumseh, Shawnee
Confucius
Thomas Jefferson
It does not exist, it is existence itself
It does not know, it is knowledge itself"
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
Wilson Mizner
"If you don't know where you are going,
Any road will take you there."
from a song by George Harrison
"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
Confucius
"No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."
from the Koran. (Sunnah, from the Islam tradition)
"Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness, do not unto others that which you would not have done unto you."
Analects, Lun-yu XV,23, from the Confucian tradition,
circa 500 BC
from The Beatles song 'We Can Work It Out'
“Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.”
Biblical Quote
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Voltaire
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
Albert Camus
Saturday
buddha
Sunday
Lakota (Sioux)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
native american
J. G. Ballard
Buddha
Hillary Clinton
How many harmful things are in existence?
If all arises from clinging to the "I",
What should I do with this great demon?"
Shantideva
Native American (Cheyenne)
Why it comes to be
Why it perishes
Why it is."
Socrates
Martin Luther King jnr
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar
It is less a problem to be poor than to be dishonest
ANISHINABE (Native American's)
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile, and your friends smile back.
Japanese Zen saying
Aristotle
Ko-ji-ki, Hachiman Kasuga of the Shinto tradition
Confucius
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."
Miriam Williamson
Dalai Lama
Saturday
"To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil."
Prophet Mohammed
Sunday
Wei-shan Ling-yu
Monday
"Just as the value of a house lies in its location,
The value of a mind lies in its depth,
The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit,
The value of words lies in their reliability"
Lao Tzu
Sunday
Ray Bradbury
…And then there was time and sequence of events, and yin and yang gave birth to the illusion of all division and “being.”
When men began to divide things by naming them, many named IT “God” and gave IT cultural names.
And thus it came to be that…
There are as many names for God as there are tongues to speak them.
There are as many faces of God as there are eyes to behold them.
There are as many paths to God as there are feet to walk them.
No name is the complete name.
No face is the complete face.
No path is the complete path.
Albert Einstein
1949
Confucius
Abraham Lincoln.
supports life without doing any act of injury to others. Animals live upon animals, the stronger upon the weaker. The mongooose devours mice; the cat devours the mongoose; the dog devours the cat; the dog is again devoured by the spotted leopard. Behold all things again are devoured by the Destroyer when he comes!
This mobile and immobile universe is food for living creatures.
This has been ordained by the gods. The very ascetics cannot support their lives without killing creatures. In water, on earth, and fruits, there are innumerable creatures. It is not true that one does not slaughter them. What higher duty is there than supporting one's life? There are many creatures that are so minute that their existence can only be inferred. With the falling of the the eyelids alone, they are destroyed."
Hindu quote
Saturday
Cheewa James
Modoc
Monday
peter ustinov
Sunday
Yoshua(Jesus Christ)
Zen Forest Saying
Monday
cultivate goodness,
purify one's mind,
strive on with awareness
Buddha.
Sunday
Hopi Indian
William Blake
Saturday
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Sunday
Blessed is human birth; even the dwellers in heaven desire this birth; for true knowledge and pure love may be attained only by a human being."
Thomas Carlyle
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there is in silence."
from Desiderata
Charles Carlson
Monday
"What is a man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth."
Chief Seattle, Suqwamish and Duwamish
Sunday
"We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks."
Oglala Lakota (Sioux)
Zen Master Seng-chao
"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain,all leading in the same direction,so it doesn't matter which path you take.The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain,telling everyone else that their path is wrong."
~ Hindu Teaching
"IT IS A FINE THING TO ESTABLISH ONE'S OWN RELIGION IN ONE'S HEART, NOT TO BE DEPENDENT ON TRADITION AND SECOND-HAND IDEALS. LIFE WILL SEEM TO YOU, LATER, NOT A LESSER, BUT A GREATER THING"
D.H. Lawrence
"Respect yourself and others will respect you"
Confucius
Monday
words from the
Apache Indian
khalil Gibran
how you behave and interact with others."
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here"
taken from Desiderata
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