“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
— Thomas Merton
“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,
even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Buddha
A cairn is a human-made pile of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn. *
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
“Just as a monkey roaming through the forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, then lets go and grabs still another, so too that which is called “mind” and “mentality” and “consciousness” arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night.” – Buddha
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen. -- Eckhart Tolle
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” — Buddha
“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and
ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” — Buddha
Maverick Mist 