Even the clearest water seems opaque at great depth. Joel Agee

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Seng-Ts’an

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.Rainer Maria Rilke

As an inlet cannot close itself to the sea that shapes it, the heart can only wear itself open.  Mark Nepo

“If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice?”~Maha Ghosananda

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all. Buddha’s Little Instruction Book

Pain is often a sign that something has to change. Mark Nepo

Tenderness does not choose its own uses. It goes out to everything equally. Jane Hirshfield

There’s no need to seek the truth – just put a stop to your opinions! Seng – Ts’an