Thoughts lead us to places, and places to contemplation. Words, churches, and roads offer us much. Let us see how:
“Our words have the power to help or harm.
Pause before you speak.
Imagine the words coming back to you in an echo about you.
Would you still want to hear them?
If you have any hesitation remain silent.”
~~ME
“I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.”
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I do not know what I may appear to the world,
but to myself I seem to have been a boy playing on the seashore,
and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble,
or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
~~Sir Isaac Newton
“It is said that at the beginning thoughts will arrive one on top of another,
uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall.
Gradually, as you perfect meditation,
thoughts become like the water in a deep narrow gorge,
then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea,
and finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean,
ruffled only by the occasional ripple or wave.”
~~Sogyal Rinpoche
“How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?…
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.”
~~Bob Dylan
“Whoever looks into the mirror of water will see first of all his own face.
Whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself.
The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it…
The mirror lies behind the mask and shows the true face.
The confrontation is the first test of courage on the inner way,
a test sufficient to frighten off most people.”
~~Carl G. Jung
Enough said.
