COFFEE BREAK 416

+ updated at 11:50am EST on Friday, March 14, 2014

+ Yesterday's Gratefulness Word for the Day:

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change.”

-- The Buddha

+ Yesterday's Daily Zen: 

If you want to complete the unsurpassable Buddha Way, you must first vow to save each and every sentient being, whose numbers are infinite. If you want to save all sentient beings, you must arouse a spirit of dauntless courage and push yourself forward mercilessly until you can see your true nature as if you are looking at it in the palm of your hand. 

– Hakuin

+ Last week Joseph Naft began a new series at Inner Frontier on The Path of The Path. This week he offers his wonderful wisdom on Handling Peaks. Here is an excerpt: "The spiritual path, our inner work is rightly directed at changing our station, at a lasting transformation of our level of being. The methods of the path accomplish this by training us to enter into and extend our stay in a state corresponding to the next higher level beyond our current station. The intention is eventually to make that next higher state our new station, to enable us to live in that new way. This takes long-term persistence." | Read it all

+ The Gratefulness Word for the Day:

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

 -- Terry Tempest Williams in Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)