“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” ― Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
••John Keats

“Neither going about naked, nor matted locks, nor filth, nor fasting, nor lying on the ground, nor smearing oneself with ashes and dust, nor sitting on the heels (in penance) can purify a mortal who has not overcome doubt.”

Lama Dharma DingDong
(Discoursing the Dhammapada)

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
-John Henry Jowett

"People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'"
••Dylan Moran

“Even though he be well-attired, yet if he is poised, calm, controlled and established in the holy life, having set aside violence towards all beings — he, truly, is a holy man, a renunciate, a monk.”

Lama Dharma DingDong
(Discoursing the Dhammapada)

“Renunciation is the act of letting go of the attachments to the confusions created by the conditioned self-referential mind. It is the lived realisation of inter-relatedness that is expressed as doing the least harm.”

Downward Dog

“Even though he be well-attired, yet if he is poised, calm, controlled and established in the holy life, having set aside violence towards all beings — he, truly, is a holy man, a renunciate, a monk.”

Lama Dharma DingDong
(Discoursing the Dhammapada)