I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing
The true seeing is when there is no seeing.
If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.
Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!