Wednesday, September 28, 2011

I'm me and not you and that's all you need know

Friday, September 16, 2011

Psychological suffering is generally associated with a heightened degree of self-focused attention.
Morita held that we can no more control our thoughts than we can control the weather, as both are phenomena of most amazingly complex natural systems. And if we have no hope of controlling our emotions, we can hardly be held responsible any more than we can be held responsible for feeling hot or cold. We do, however, have complete dominion over our behavior, and for Morita, that is a sacred responsibility. "What needs doing now?" is like a mantra in his methods.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

~Shunryu Suzuki