Do not keep the alabaster box of your friendship
sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives
with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words
while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts
can be thrilled and made happier. The kind of things you
mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.
~George W. Childs
And this from Philip Gould who is at the place of the final reckoning.
Thanks go to Angie for sending me the link to this article.
Lo, the stone maiden dances
and the wooden figure sings.
The Most Excellent Mirror Samadhi
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness
which does not bow before children.
~Kahlil Gibran
Compassion – Love – Humility.
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my
sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the
love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
~Kahlil Gibran
There is only one thing
To train hard
For this is true enlightenment.
Zen Master Dogen – Rules for Meditation
Or as it came to me one day when I was a novice:
Oh!
We don’t train
in order to become
enlightened.We train
because
it is
enlightenment!