The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.
Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.
Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.
What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end. . . in the end it is our only ally.
I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.
Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. . . Maybe my questions matter.