Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that's it.
It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.
I started cooking out of middle school depression.