power and control

“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.”

Alan Wilson Watts

cause and effect

the present

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”

Alan Wilson Watts (via purplebuddhaproject)

your choice

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”

Heraclitus

the way of the Bodhisattva

“For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the world”

Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva (via thirdgodofshinobi)

don’t settle

expanded present

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”

Alan Wilson Watts

stay awake

“Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.”

Pema Chödrön (via belovedlotus)

busy loving

blame