Dallas

“Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work. You can easily see why”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Big Book and A Study Guide of the 12 Steps

“It’s just what it is, it’s natural, it’s nature. It’s just the way it is. And you’re a witness to it, because you recognize you’re in this position of the Buddho, or the knower, the witness.”
― Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho

“What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.”
― David Whyte, River Flow: New & Selected Poems