A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson
about how he felt.
He said 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart...

"The more I know the more I understand,
The more I understand the more I know I don’t know...

"Morals and codes of behaviour are as

necessary as telling a bee how to collect nectar"

Openhand

"Beliefs are fear announced,

not trusting in the chaos of the moment,

that out of that chaos,

the heart of the universe will unfold

the divine order of truth"

Openhand

"Relationships are as redundant as building structures

on shifting sand.

The sand has no relationship with the sea,

rather it relates to the ebb and flow of the waves...

when they choose to kiss the shoreline."

Openhand

"To know the truth is to know the self.

to know the self is to know what the self is not.

To be at one with what the self is and is not...

in every moment,

is to be enlightened by all things.

Then there is no trace of enlightenment,

although enlightenment flows through our daily lives

endlessly."

Openhand

"Don't tell me how wonderful things will be...someday.

Show me how you can risk being completely at peace,

truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment,

and the next, and the next, and the next..."

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Take me to the places that teach you how to dance,

the places where you can risk breaking your heart.

And I will take you to the places where the earth

beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my

heart whole again and again

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"Be sure of one thing,

the 'is' has imagined it

quite a bit better than

you have!"

From "Illusions" by Richard Bach

To study the Way is to study the self.

To study the self is to forget the self.

To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

To be enlightened by all things

is to remove the barriers between one's self and others.

Then there is no trace of enlightenment,

though enlightenment itself continues into one's daily life endlessly.

Dogen