This Week…

“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.”
–Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
–Meister Eckhart

“To Do Today, 1/17/08
1. Sit and think
2. Reach enlightenment
3. Feed the cats” 
―Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.” 
–Bob Dylan

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.” 
–Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“You need to leave the table when love is no longer being served.”
–Nina Simone 

“If the audience members didn’t laugh, it wasn’t funny. If they didn’t gasp, it wasn’t surprising. If they did not sit forward in their seats, it wasn’t suspenseful.”
–David Mamet

“Pain x resistance = suffering”
–Tara Brach, dharma talk

“Thoughts that think in straight lines cannot see round corners …”
–Dr. Samuel Ravengai, a friend and colleague in the theatre department

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
— Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain