Interlude: An Internet Retreat "Thought of the Day"

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves,"Are these words true?" If so, we let them pass on; If not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, "Are they necessary?" At the last gate, we ask, "Are they kind?"
Eknath Easwaran

The only myth that's going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one talking about the planet–not this city, not these people, but the planet and everybody on it.
Joseph Campbell

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clean and right.
Chick Corea

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer.
Thomas Merton

Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit," but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path," for the Spirit walks on all paths.
Khalil Gibran

At times helping happens simply in the way of things. It's not something we really think about, merely the instinctive response of an open heart. Caring is a reflex…You live, you help.
Ram Dass & Paul Gorman in How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
Andre Dubus

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
Milton Erickson, M.D.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles…by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
Paul Johannes Tillich

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.
John Foster

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Past Thoughts of the Day from Interlude: An Internet Retreat

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves,"Are these words true?" If so, we let them pass on; If not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, "Are they necessary?" At the last gate, we ask, "Are they kind?"

The only myth that's going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one talking about the planet–not this city, not these people, but the planet and everybody on it.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clean and right.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer.

Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit," but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path," for the Spirit walks on all paths.

At times helping happens simply in the way of things. It's not something we really think about, merely the instinctive response of an open heart. Caring is a reflex…You live, you help.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles…by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.