Thoughts From A Mystic

. Some thoughts to ponder, from Chapter 20 in The Dhammapada (Trans. Max Muller) 5 (277) "All conditioned things are impermanent." The one who knows and perceives this fact ceases to be miserable. This is the way to purity of vision. 6 (278) "All conditioned things are involved in suffering." The one who knows and perceives this fact ceases to be miserable. This is the way to purity of vision. Beautiful sayings. Seeing the way 'out' we follow, and are freed. Matthew

. "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards; so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, karma, whatever... because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference." Steve Jobs Stanford commencement speech 2005 [timecode 4:53-5:18] Other quotes from the same speech- "As with all matters of the heart, don't settle." "Remembering that you are going to die; which is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked, there is no reason not to follow your heart." "Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of someone else's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drowned out your own inn...

. Ray Bradbury's message to would-be writers, June 24th, '06, in Santa Barbara, CA...but he's talking about life- "You're supposed to be having fun! Your supposed to be living your life! You're here on this world to enjoy yourself; to be in love. And not to think about it; and not to worry, and not to be unhappy... If you're going to ruin your life with thinking; I want to you make your life with feeling...with feeling! ...with loving. That's what you're here for! You've been put in the world, to love the act of being alive!!!" R. Bradbury .