MESSAGE #897 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT SPIRITUAL MASTER

All the happiness
there is
in this world
arises from
wishing
others
to be happy.
All the suffering
there is
in this world
arises from
wishing
oneself
to be happy.

Shantideva (687-763)
Indian Buddhist scholar

MESSAGE #551

Here is my wish for you and

every other child, woman and

man on the face of the earth:

Spend one week

saying only kind,

caring things

to yourself.

Say thank-you

at least ten times an hour

--direct five toward yourself

and five to the world at large.

Compliment yourself

(and others)

each time an effort is made.

Notice all the wonderful qualities

and characteristics about yourself

and those around you.

One week.

You will never go back.

And your whole life will be

a glorious meditation.

-- Cheri Huber

Zen teacher and writer

MESSAGE #218 - FOUND IN A STATIONERY STORE IN NYC...

I beg you to have patience
with everything unresolved
in your heart and try to love
the questions themselves as
if they were locked rooms
or books written in a very
foreign language.

Don’t search for the
answers, which could
not be given to you
now, because you would
not be able to live them.

And the point is to live
everything.
Live the questions now.

Perhaps then, someday
far in the future, you
will gradually without
even noticing it, live
your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926
German writer