“We go outside, on a clear, cold night. We see millions of stars all over the place, bright and beautiful, each one shining forever. Each moment is forever, it's shining in each moment forever.” MomentsBeautifulNightStarsMillionsForeverClearAwarenessBuddhismColdShiningCold Night Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.” WayHomeLightNightUniverseStarsSunAtheismMinutesAwarenessCryInfinitePositive AtheismMy WayTraitsQuestsHomelessFleetingHintsCautiousIncompleteSpinePilgrimWanderers Author:Chet Raymo
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsPersonsWholeMightUsedUniverseStarsRealizingSpaceMillionsForeverFourAwarenessPlanetsWallInfinitePrisonWhole LifePrisonerGalaxyTime And SpaceInaccessibleExpanseHaremFour Walls Author:Vladimir Bartol
“Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.” KnowsInspirationalChildrenHas BeensStatesEnoughSpiritualStarsJourneyAwarenessActivityMiracleCuriosityDetailsCracksInvitesPausesMiraculousAntsPonderingSpiritual JourneySidewalk Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest