Welcome To My Humble Abode
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.“
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind—Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Photo Credit: Delphina Raven, Crested Butte, CO, USA
“Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.”
“The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others.
Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.”
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind—Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
The most predictable aspect of life is how unpredictable it is. The external and inner nature seems chaotic, yet it’s an organized kind. Striking that balance as we go through life seems to be the constant, as far as life seems to be mentoring me.
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know, the more humility I gain, and the more helpful a sense of curious wonder, accompanied by critical observation and thinking, becomes.
My humble abode here is merely snippets of what life as my mentor has taught me. In writings, artwork, photography (coming soon), and in culmination of that, a little corner of my merchandise online shop (coming soon) from my pondering.