In the quietness, with nothing to accomplish, there is only direct experience.
— Dogen Zenji
Blythe Smith |
The young dogs barked and got excited
but the old dog just kept eating
and then laid down for a nap
thunder rumbling the gray rainy sky
James Lee Jobe
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
Radovan Skohel |
I have owned several names and loved several rivers. The ocean when it's cold and the waves are breaking across a rocky shore, I love that also. And I love the excitement of a running child, the tenacity of a hungry squirrel, and the lusty beauty of a low and full moon; I love them all. I do. My list of things to love is a long one, and as the years pass I still add to it. Friend, this is not a bad life.
James Lee Jobe
Nature is party to all of our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
Cynthia Bjorn |
Your skin is a shell
Your flesh is a shell
Even your mind is a shell
You are the earth
The sky
The water
You are fire and wind
You live in the universe
Sure
But also know
That the universe lives in you
One and again
One and again
James Lee Jobe
When all the shrubs
have darkened like hair
a yellow dog is there
tumbling in the snow.
Miyazawa Kenji
Yokoyama Taikan |
That I might always keep my heart, my eyes, and my mind open. That compassion might begin with me and grow outward, spreading like ripples on a pond from a pebble I tossed in.
James Lee Jobe
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