inspiration

Gill Eardley

Allspirit Inspiration

Each man has only one genuine vocation ~
to find the way to himself.
His task is to discover his own destiny ~ not an arbitrary one ~
and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself.
Everything else is only a would-be existence,
an attempt at evasion,
a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity;
and fear of one's inwardness.
~ Hermann Hesse

The Other Syntax

"I'm an Indian and we Indians have always been humble and have
done nothing else but lower our heads. I thought humbleness was not
in the warrior's way. I was wrong! I know now that the humbleness
of a warrior is not the humbleness of a beggar.

"The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he
doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the
other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the
floor for anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he
demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.
"You like the humbleness of a beggar," he said softly. "You bow
your head to reason."

~An Appointment with Knowledge
TALES OF POWER
Carlos Castaneda

Judith Jamison photo by jack mitchell

Daily Dharma

”Those who recite many scriptures but fail to practice their teachings are like cowherds counting another’s cows. The do not share in the joys of the spiritual life. But those who know few scriptures yet practice their teachings, overcoming all lust, hatred, and delusion, live with a pure mind in the highest wisdom. The stand without external supports and share in the joys of the spiritual life.”~~ The Dhammapada

From the book, "The Dhammapada,” translated by Eknath Easwaran, and published by Nilgiri Press