Monday, July 26, 2010

#17


May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face; and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

-George Jung, Blow

Saturday, July 17, 2010

#16

When you become light and you radiate, there is no darkness. A candle has one future, to spread the light. How does the candle spread the light? By burning itself, the candle spreads light and consequently knows the future. If you burn yourself, you will radiate and will spread light. The job of the human being is to radiate through the finite self the infinite light.

-Yogi B

Friday, July 16, 2010

#15


Where is the limit of a person? How can you be limited? A person is limited according to his attachment. It doesn't matter what you have or what you don't have; it matters only how easily you can let go.
-Yogi Bhajan

Saturday, July 3, 2010

#14

Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life - but it wasn’t perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for the perfect thing to make him happy. In the meantime, unbeknownst to him, his itsy-bitsy seconds and silky, smooth hours and raggedy days ticked away, so that when Charlie stopped traveling and realized what he truly wanted out of life, it was almost too late. Almost.

Daren and Daniel Simkin, The Traveler

Thursday, July 1, 2010

#13

I am sending you
postcards from a place
where I am not.

We’re not tourists, we’re travelers

a tourist is someone who
thinks about going home the
moment they arrive

whereas a traveler
might not come
back at all.

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

(introduced to me by my faux friend Ian)