"Finding a Purpose"

Dear Human:

You’ve got it all wrong.
You didn’t come here to master unconditional love.
That is where you came from and where you’ll return.
You came here to learn personal love.
Universal love.
Messy love.
Sweaty love.
Crazy love.
Broken love.
Whole love.
Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling.
Demonstrated through the beauty of… messing up. Often.
You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are.
You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous.
And then to rise again into remembering.
But unconditional love?
Stop telling that story.
Love, in truth, doesn’t need ANY other adjectives.
It doesn’t require modifiers.
It doesn’t require the condition of perfection.
It only asks that you show up. And do your best.
That you stay present and feel fully.
That you shine and fly and laugh and cry
and hurt and heal and fall and get back up
and play and work and live and die as YOU.
It’s enough. It’s Plenty.

~ Courtney Walsh

Blade Runner end scene quote

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." -Roy Batty, Bladerunner

St. Paddy's Quote

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best two cures for anything."
- Irish proverb

Confucius on planning

"If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice;
If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees;
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children."

- Confucius

Sandman: Season of Mists toast

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."

- Neil Gaiman, "The Sandman: Season of Mists"

"The Question"

"Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
- Tennessee Williams
("Zen Calendar: Wednesday, 16 April 2014")

"Things are..."

"If you understand, things are just as they are...
If you do not understand, things are just as they are..."

~Zen Saying

"The axe forgets
What the tree remembers..."

- African proverb

"I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it"
- Neil Gaiman