Simple Mind Zen

"Friendship must be about something." --C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis wrote a classical interpretation of many emotions central to hu...

"Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone....

For some, poetry aims highly at several things. As an art form it uses language in new and creative ways to express ideas and emotions; it...

"The shadow gone autonomous is a terrible monster in our house..." The Shadow by Robert Johnson As children most us learn th...

"When you do, you will see that your "first love" may not really be the first..."  Thich Nhat Hanh, Cultivating the Min...

"The images that we carry about in our reverie, in our dreams, in our deepest waking hearts become vividly real to the aware, awake ...

"It was Sappho who first called eros "bittersweet."  --Eros Bittersweet by Anne Carson While hard to translate when appli...

"Men have forgotten this truth... The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart." --The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exuper...

"A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy." Sadhana by R. Tagore Investigating further into the work of Rab...

"A human being is beautiful and may be revealed as beautiful to another human being." --Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla, ...

"Sentimentality must be clearly distinguished from love"  --Karol Wojtyla So much of our deepest, spiritual longings center arou...