Out beyond ideas...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.  I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.

~Rumi

Thinking

 

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." 

~William Shakespeare

You Spot It, You Got It

"The faults we criticize in others are only our own projected onto them; if they were not, they would not bother us, and we would not even notice them." ~from Advice from a Spiritual Friend by two Tibetan lamas, Geshe Rabten and Geshe Dhargyey

"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves." ~Oscar Wilde

"And passion can dissolve into nondual compassion..." ~Ken Wilber

Once upon a time...

"Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Whether you complain aloud or only in thought makes no difference." ~Eckhart Tolle

Seeing things

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

          ~ from Tao Te Ching, Chapter 2