The Universe Smiles

While you have yet to awaken from your dream, its shadows, darkness, and pain are all so real. It takes but a moment to open your eyes and wash away lifetimes of deep sleep.

The mind has no origin or master and may create anything imaginable, limited only by its degree of openness.

Perhaps the biggest shame of all is to accept and surrender to one’s fate, doing nothing to clear the path that your heart might follow.

Seeking the world for beauty may deprive you of precious time for creating it.

Bumping into walls and falling down is an inevitable part of the process of finding the light switch in a dark room.

Pride may begin with a gentle voice but eventually raises to such a deafening shout so as to drown out all reason.

We cannot fail to love one another any more than the waves of the ocean might push themselves apart.

Before you rush to cross a bridge, consider you might do better to burn it.

No misfortune in the world can overpower a soul that desires happiness for everyone, without exception.

A clever mind and rich imagination are absolutely impotent without the realization of mortality and the need to care for others with the same fate.

Lying to oneself pushes ones conscience farther and farther away from truth, and as truth disappears, so does love.

A lifetime of smiles may leave deep wrinkles on the face, yet a life with no wrinkles leaves nothing behind at all.

The form in which you are born can in no way hinder you from becoming a great force of nature.

Genius is bestowed upon those gifted with undying patience.

Your dreams need not be acknowledged by any other that you might take flight across a sea of worthy challenges.

There can truly be neither depth nor complexity without sweet imperfection.

Great joy will come only to those that learn to renounce that which is negative and dedicate their life to what is only and inherently good.

You are are not born who you are – you must choose to become that person.

For those that will be madly in love with life, life will surely love them back.

Time passes slowly. Have patience, plant seeds, wait, and grow in your joy.

Civilizations rise and fall, generation after generation, yet the Sun blazes endlessly, unchanged by time. Your heart, truly your entire being, is that very Sun. Devote your life to that, and all will be transformed.

If you are certain you know something well, then you are quite guaranteed to be far from understanding.

If you always run away from trouble, it will be sure to follow you wherever you go.

Being crazy can be a force for great good, but without the desire to bring happiness to others, it is merely insanity.

One that is wildly alive can never be neutral, especially in matters of the heart.

It is far better to find oneself in isolation than in the crowded company of aggression and hate.

Grace and beauty color the Universe, yet much is filtered by pouring them through the sieve of the mind.

In the realm of the infinite, there is no time, nor is there any limit to what may be seen, heard, or felt – that is our birthplace.

Tread carefully with an emotionally charged opinion, as it can ignite a fire as quickly as it may put one out.

The soul of those that came before us is known by the imprints they left behind in the course of living their lives. The more deeply present you are in this moment, the stronger the footprint you leave in the sands of time, rippling forever into future generations.

All things in the present are a repetition of the past – only combination and novelty resurrects them anew.

They that shine light in the darkest hour will set ablaze the hearts of all souls to the ends of the Universe.

The more complex you make a problem, the harder it will be to climb out of it.

You must look up from time to time to see where the river is carrying you, lest you end up on the wrong side of a waterfall.

In order to recognize wolves in sheep’s clothing, it may be necessary to spend a great deal of time with wolves.

War is a symptom of the terminal diseases of ignorance, superstition, and malice.

It is indeed a grave problem to be controlled and limited by another but an even bigger sin to stay asleep in freedom.

Desire is like the wind – the more it blows in a certain direction, the more likely the mind and will shall follow.

The powers that be can do whatever they please to limit what you say, but only you can decide how free the mind will be.

As the river rushes across the Earth to meet the sea, it never for a moment stops to ponder if the journey might not be far more meaningful than the destination.

If you are aware of yourself when dancing, you really aren’t dancing at all.

Great souls can never find peace as long as another is suffering in the world.

Every decision has equal potential for benevolence and aggression. Before you open a door, make absolutely sure you are on the right side of it.

A bumblebee’s wings are too small for its large body, but it flies anyway – and flies well.

Dream big and deep so that every step on your journey might be light and effortless.

The eyes are only the first frontier in the endless spectrum of perspectives on reality.

There is enough misery in the world to learn from, lest you seek out your own.

Rare is the person who will hit their target on the first try, but rarer yet is that person who will miss a million times on the way to mastery.

No room is too small to confine the boundless spirit of one that is truly free.

The mind is shaped and molded by experience, yet the Heart, the innermost core of your being, is untouched by that experience and watches as that mind is born, lives and passes away.