A Collection of "Musings of the Moment"

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.
Dalai Lama

One Vast Garden
"I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden." By: Sri Ananandamayi Ma

The Master said, "It is by the Odes that the mind is aroused." It is by the Rules of Propriety that the character is established. "It is from Music that the finish is received." The Master said, "The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

- Confucius

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs

My GrandPops used to say: "You can't complain if you don't Vote." We worked hard for the Right to Vote in a Democratic Society. So VOTE!

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~Walter H. Judd

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale

Everything is Light. EVERYTHING. --Mary Clair Brader

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen

Death is at once The end of the body's Old journey And the beginning of the soul's New journey.
Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The soul is the guide.

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. ~Glade Byron Addams

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~Aldous Huxley

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