Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. 
Rise above this world. There is another vision. 
All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. 
Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. 
It will not lead you astray.
Let the beauty you seek be what you do!
~ Rumi ~

"Wake up. Day calls you to your life: your duty.

And to live, nothing more...

Do nothing.

Your work is you, nothing more."

"Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
Be quick and spare no effort of your wings."
~Jalaluddin Rumi~

"Even when luck is with you and you're powerful,
still, Prosperity is other than you are:
one day it departs and leaves you poor.
O you who've been chosen, be your own good fortune!
When you have become your own wealth, O man of Reality,
then how will you, who are Prosperity, lose yourself?
How will you lose yourself, O man of good qualities,
when your essence is your wealth and your kingdom?"

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When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.
When it knows good as good, evil arises.
Thus being and non-being produce each other.
Difficult and easy bring about each other.
Long and short reveal each other......
Music and voice harmonize each other.......
Therefore the sages:
Manage the work of detached actions...
They create but do not possess...They act but do not presume.
They succeed but do not dwell on success
It is because they do not dwell on success...
That it never goes away.
 (Tao Te Ching)

  I am a fountain, You are my water.
I flow from You to You.
I am an eye, You are my light.....
I look from You to You.
You are neither my right nor my left.
You are my foot and my arm as well.
I am a traveler, You are my road....
I go from You to You.
~Zentep-

True happiness..
is not the opposite of sorrow,
it includes all sorrow and suffering. 
(Nisargadatta)
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Giving..!
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You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live....
for to withhold is to perish....................
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver..
and instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life --
while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
(Kahlil Gibran)

"Some think they are growing older,
Others just keep glowing bolder.
Some notice their skin is sagging ,
Others just notice marks of Sage-ing.
Some think their life will soon be done ,
Others know that the fun has just begun."

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Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche...
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Rest in natural great peace
This exhausted mind, beaten relentlessly
by karma and neurotic thoughts,
Like the unceasing fury of the pounding waves
In the infinite ocean of Samsara.
Rest in natural great peace.

Wu Hsin will not
Engage you in debate.
Debate is food for the mind.
My preference is not to
feed the mind but to  starve it. 
(~Wu Hsin - An Interlude in Eternity.)